Fracture in the Galician PSOE due to the dismissal of two workers, one fixed by the labor reform of his own party

• Legislation Congress validates the labor reform thanks to a PP deputy who claims to have voted against it

Difficult moments in the Galician PSOE.

The party has just fired two workers from its parliamentary group in the Autonomous Chamber, one of whom had recently signed an indefinite contract in compliance with the labor reform approved by his own formation in the central government.

The dismissals and, above all, the ways used to undertake them, have generated discomfort among the regional deputies, to the point that half of the group has officially rebelled and has signed a letter asking for the decision to be reversed.

The letter was delivered by registration on July 20 both in the Party Directorate and in Parliament and is signed by seven of the 14 deputies that make up the parliamentary group, just half.

The signatories reject the decision to fire these two workers, both journalists attached to the communication department and the only two directly hired by the parliamentary group -there are others hired by the party-.

The discomfort of the deputies is directed at the decision itself and also at the forms used, since they found out about the dismissal through the workers themselves.

As this newspaper has learned from unofficial sources, both were notified of the dismissal by burofax, they were not directly informed and, in addition, one of the people was even on vacation and the other about to take his days off.

The document that evidences the fracture in the parliamentary group also appeals to the ideology and ethics of the PSOE, as it recalls that this dismissal is "nothing typical of our organization, which must work for job stability and the rights of the workers ".

One of the dismissed people had a contract associated with the current 2020-2024 legislature, so that it did not end until Parliament is suspended due to the calling of elections, and the other was indefinite for just a few months in application of the aforementioned reform promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

The seven deputies "reject" the decision and remind the Galician leadership of the party that

occupies and the parliamentary group for which

is the spokesperson that the PSdeG-PSOE "was born to defend workers." , hence they must "immediately reverse this decision".

In addition, in the letter, to which

has had access , they insist that "there is not a single objective reason for his dismissal."

The party leadership refused to comment on these dismissals and the dismissed workers did not want to make any assessments to this newspaper.

Yes, this letter and their discomfort were confirmed by some of the signatory deputies, who in the document itself emphasize that the two dismissed workers have always carried out their work "with absolute professionalism and rigor" and "with full compliance with their tasks under the orders of the management ".

The document is signed, among others, by the former general secretary of the Galician PSOE,

, who lost the elections last October in favor of González Formoso.

Also the deputies

and

.

Ethical and moral issues

To questions from this newspaper, Martín Seco confirms that these dismissals "leave a fracture in the group" and that they were carried out without previously informing the deputies, who found out about it from the workers themselves.

The dismissed themselves also received explanations, but they were communicated by burofax.

According to Seco, after finding out, they forced a meeting of the parliamentary group and there was "unanimity" of all the deputies to support the good work of the two workers and question their dismissal, although only seven decided to take the step of expressing that disagreement in an official letter.

For this deputy, the situation is "very serious because we are talking about the socialist party" and because one of the workers' contract was recently renewed, making it indefinite by applying the new labor reform promoted by his government.

In addition, on a personal level, he insists on his "political commitment" in defense of labor rights, which led him to be a union delegate in his previous company.

He appeals to ideological and ethical questions and to the "ethical and political values ​​for which I militate in this party" to insist that it is not logical for him to try to promulgate the need to apply labor policies that seek job stability and then "be in a party that exercises this type of action", especially when in this case there is no economic or disciplinary reason that justifies the termination of the employment relationship and shortly after two other workers were hired to perform the same functions.

Noelia Otero, a journalist by profession, also confirmed to this newspaper this malaise "on an ethical and moral level", especially because of the forms.

After insisting that, both in her facet as a deputy and in the past as a journalist, she can confirm "first hand" the "professionalism" of the fired people, she acknowledges that the decision "leaves me in a very complicated place ".

"What is unfortunate about these events is not that they transcend, but that they happen," says Otero, who sees the "unfair" dismissals for which he has already shown his "absolute disagreement" with the leadership of the party and the parliamentary group.

She feels that it means crossing "a red line" for a person who, like her, took a step forward to stand out politically with a party that "defends the rights of workers" and does not deny her "pain and discomfort" with the decision in an organization that "has to be a guarantor of the opposite".

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