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Renzo Rubele wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Per annullare l'iscrizione a questa mailing list spedisci il > messaggio 'unsubscribe adi-discussione' a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > I dottorandi e i post-doc spagnoli manifestano (non e' la prima volta). > > L'"ADI spagnola", cioe' la FJI-Precarios, e' certamente la piu' combattiva > Associazione europea del settore. Allego qui sotto il pop-up, e poi il > Manifesto della dimostrazione, che hanno diligentemente tradotto in inglese > (e di cui consiglio la lettura). > > RR-euro > > ________________________________________________ > > El pr�ximo viernes d�a 13 de Junio nos movilizamos bajo el lema "�Ning�n > investigador sin contrato!". > > Lee el MANIFIESTO. > Lugar: Madrid > > Recorrido: Plaza de Castilla (metro Plaza de castilla) - Ministerio de > Ciencia y Tecnolog�a. > Hora: 12.00 > B�jate los carteles aqu� > M�s informaci�n, como siempre, en la lista estatal > y contactando con: > Andr�s Requena > Blanca Biel > > Adem�s, ya que vas a Madrid, puedes quedarte a la asamblea de la > FJI/Precarios (13 por la tarde y 14). M�s informaci�n aqu�. > > __________________________________________________ > > In Madrid, 13th June 2003 > > The undersigning organizations of this manifesto proclaim that: > > The Spanish Government, and successive workgroups of the Science and > Technology Ministry (MCyT), have not succedded in the implementation of a > good scientific policy during the years that they have been in office. In > sight of the results, the creation of a new Science and Technology Ministry > has only brought bureaucratic problems. We�ve already been under the command > of two Ministers, and have witnessed the serial demission of many relevant > officers appearing to be due to the lack of initiative that they had to > bear. The resolutions and payments of proyect grants and fellowships have > suffered unbeareble delays and a large amount of this budget hasn�t been > expended, thus being this department in severe need of investment. The > percentage of GDP dedicated to Research and Civil and Military Development > in our country (0,96%) is the lowest in the OECD countries, is under the EU > average (1,94%), and quite far from the average 3% that the EU targeted by > the Barcelona European Council for 2010. > > We declare that this lack of attention to science in Spain highly affects > the human resources working in the research area. Among them, the so-called > Research Personnel in Training and Improvement (PIFP) or, after the EU > denomination, Early Stage Researchers (ESR�s) are in a critical situation. > ESR�s form an heterogeneous group including graduated students in their PhD > training in many different situations (granted, with contracts that doesn�t > fit their real work nor theiEr diploma, or without a regular income), PhD > researchers, and other professionals without a well defined status. This > human group constitutes more than half of the staff of many research > centres. Moreover, next to the half of the Spanish scientific papers > published in relevant journals are signed in first place by an ESR . > Therefore, they carry out a basic task for the scientific system of this > country. In spite of this, the national and regional authorities persevere > in keeping these qualified workers in a situation that denies any juridical > and professional relationship with the organisms they work for, without the > main rights that any worker has in Spain, masking real jobs as training > fellowships. Unfortunately this situation may be maintained from 6 to 10 > years, often combined with periods more or less longer in which the job is > not remunerated. Furthermore, if we analyse the situation of ESR�s in the > countries that surround us, we discover the evidence that Spain is in the > last positions of the European chart (The situation of the Early Stage > Researchers in Europe, FJI-Precarios and Eurodoc, > http://www.precarios.org/docs.php3). > > We also want to point that the innitiatives proposed by the Spanish > Government have been conceived with little skill and without any > reliability, and that haven�t still been carried out. For three years now, > the Federaci�n de J�venes Investigadores-Precarios (FJI-Precarios), an > organization that represents and defends the ESR�s, and also other groups > concerned for this professional group, has been claiming and has reported > data about their situation and scientific production. In response to these > claims and unilaterally, the central Government announced to the press in > November 2001 the elaboration of a Statute that would regulate the role of > the fellow researchers, conferring them only some of the worker�s rights > that a contract intrinsically has. In spite of the fact thar the Government > didn�t waste time to make a public announcement of the imminent approval of > the document , , , , this Statute, which would surely improve the situation > but does not convince the parties concerned, keeps on going from one > Ministry to another without being approved. Taking into account that this > document was qualified as a rapid provisional solution, we consider that > this delay is absolutely unbearable. The explanation given by the > Government, that the delay is due to the need of joining the willing of any > Ministry integrated into the Interministrial Science and Technology > Commission (CICyT) is clearly a bad excuse, as according to some experts > from these Ministries, in an affair like this, the CICyT is to follow the > MCyT�s guidelines. Even some Regional Administrations have expressed their > will to adhere this Statute yet with no legal duty, not without a previous > critique the lack of contemplation of all the workers rights in the draft > made by the MCyT. > > In our opinion, it is important to highlight the limited will for dialogue > of the MCyT main officers: despite that the group of fellow researchers is > the more concerned in Spain for the eventual implementation of this > document, the FJI-Precarios hasn�t been at any time taken into account in > the development and amendments of the document, and the information given > has been extremely poor. In fact, after repeatedly requesting the document, > we have only had access to it through third parts, and the detailed > suggestions about the document that were made to the MCyT under their > demand, haven�t been considered, in spite of the clear and severe lacks that > of this Statute, because it doesn�t consider the basic rights of > unemployment allowance and holydays, and let the ESR�s outside the > protection of the Spanish Workers� Statute (and its subsequent effect on > syndical representation, direct participation in the organisms they work > for, etc.) > > Last, we would like to denounce the more severe situation of the > postdoctoral researchers, which after reaching the highest educational > degree recognized by the Spanish Universities, are some times unremunerated > and in most of the cases granted. The whole Spanish scientific community has > unanimously claimed that every postdoctoral researcher should have a > contract, and, in addition, all the political parties (including the Partido > Popular in government) and the trade unions have declared that the > postdoctoral grants should be turned into contracts, so it�s hard to explain > why the Government hasn�t done anything to implemeny actions that would > change the present situation. In this sense, the only contribution of the > Science and Technology Ministry is the creation of the Ram�n y Cajal Program > that would allow a little number of researchers (with an average age of 35 > and large postdoctoral experience) to be �privileged� with a contract during > the next five years and without ensuring their later integration into the > research system. It should be pointed that, if this has to be considered as > a step forward in the rough present situation, the last chance for > application has been already released and the Spanish scientific community > doesn�t know what is going to happen with the future reintegration of PhD > holders into the scientific system. > > For all these reasons, having received constant promises that didn�t become > real and realizing that the authorities� idleness, the FJI-Precarios calls > for a protest demonstration, (place and hour), asking for: > > - A definitive regulation of the ESR status through the substitution of the > present fellowship system into laboural contracts including every social > right, and without a reduction in the number of research personnel. > > - The announcement of a sufficient law by a document that would cover the > public and private organisms, to end with the unnecessary and unfair > heterogeneity in the working conditions of these professionals. > > - For the increase of the budget dedicated to research in Spain, as well in > the human resources section as in the infrastructural and project section, > to allow the creation of a Research and Development network that would bring > Spain to the level of the most developed countries. > > --- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Renzo Rubele > Ph.D. candidate > Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" > Universita' degli Studi di Salerno > Italy > > EURODOC Vice President - www.eurodoc.net > ADI Adjunct Vice President - www.dottorato.it > > Phone: +39 089 965418 > Fax: +39 089 965275 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web page: http://scs.sa.infn.it/rubele > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ www.e-laser.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
