Growth, investment and employment are essential for Portugal to be competitive, says UGT – Observer
UGT argues that Portugal will only become “more developed and competitive” if it bets on growth, investment and employment, in order to promote convergence with the European Union (EU).
This position is assumed in the Programmatic Resolution that will be approved and approved at the 14th congress of the trade union central, which will be held Saturday and Sunday in Santarém.
The document defines UGT’s lines of action, in the most diverse aspects, for the next four years, including the commitments that UGT assumes in this mandate, “in an analysis opinion” and proposalwhich is usual for you.
The bets that UGT will face in the next quadrennium include the economic growth, job creation, salary increasesbetter qualification of the different sectors of the administration, an inclusive education system and the economic reinforcement of the National Service of Administration. .
The reinforcement of social consultation and collective bargaining are other ambitions of UGT for the next four years.
The center even considers that the deepening dialogue and social consultation are essential for more sustained economic development.
Therefore, it requires “the effective involvement of the social partners within the PRR participation – Recovery and Resilience Program, of Portugal 2030/Multi-annual Financial Framework”, instruments to ensure economic and social recovery and promote fair and inclusive transitions.
In the document, to which Lusa had access, the central also defends the deepening of the public investment in structural areas for economic and social progress, making the Country of physical, digital, environmental infrastructures, but also of intangible infrastructures, such as the qualification of people, research and innovationfighting as determined conditions for the current challenges and that will face social and territorial resistance.
UGT claims the reorganization processes still structure, defense processes, phases and processes of reorganizations of reorganizations of defense processes as primordial, processes and companies claimed by unions, reorganizations in all defense processes and primordial interests. of the workers”.
In the current context, the training and retraining of workers assumes a decisive role in the protection of jobs”, considered the trade union central in the programmatic document that will be approved on Sunday.
Yet productivity and wealth are a reality.