The German
leftist party DIE LINKE has a fair number of seats in the Bundestag
(parliament) and is part of the parliamentary opposition, together with the
Greens and the SPD (social democrats), at the national level that is. At the
state/province level (Laender), DIE LINKE is part of the ruling coalition in
some provinces.
What are
their demands and views on unemployment, job creation, and work in general? The
following information was found on their web site.
(A )from
the party program of 2007
The chapter
on work (Arbeit) is the first in the party program. It calls “for a
reorganization of social life chances and work” and demands the following
concerning wage labour:
(a )shorter
work time
(b )new
jobs through ecological and social restructuring
(c )public
employment sectors (supported by and/or created by the state)
(d )active
labour market policy
(e )use
productivity gains for higher real wages and shorter work time
(f )legal
minimum wage
(g
)improved labour-related laws
(h )legal
provisions against increasing abuse of trainees
(i )apply
domestic social standards to all [i.e., including foreigners] working in the
country
(j )give
public contracts to firms that have high social and ecological standards
(B)specific
demands made in November-December 2009 with respect to the current crisis:
26nov09, no
public subsidies for Opel (i.e., German GM) without binding job guarantees
02dec09,
for nationalization of the private banking sector
14dec09,
extend the payment of unemployment benefits to a period of two years during the
current crisis
16dec09,
for a big rescue package for the new wave of unemployed expected in 2010
(C )General
policy statement concerning the current economic and financial crisis:
“The costs
of the crisis must be borne by the profiteers of finance market capitalism.”
For a billionaires and millionaires tax in order “to finance a public
investment program and for securing the existence of small and medium-size
enterprises.”
December 2009
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