Is this guy crazy?! He wants to have the underfunded and understaffed Hulpkas handle the unemployment benefits?
ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!
I never understood why the unions, whose main task is to represent the working people, are the ones that are paying the unemployed people. Why can the government not do that?
The MR is in the wrong government to implement this.
Long overdue.
Of course this is a mayor source of income for the unions so they will never agree to this.
What disturbs me is the fact that unions these days are very often regarded as something up to no good. I am 54, never been without a job and even this covid thing made me stay at home for just one week, then my employer has taken measures to continue work in a safe way. (Happy for that) I have a house, we own 2 cars and a motorcycle, everything got payed by working for it. I was lucky enough so far by always having a good job and never have big health problems, both can be different tomorrow, you never know.
But we should never forget that it is thank to the unions that we are represented and protected, i guess no employee would favour the ‘Daens’ situation? For sure, not everything is correct and there are wrong people in the unions too, but if they are not there; who is going to defend us? I believe it is rather dumb to believe that companies will pay a good salary if they are not forced too. It is not humanity that takes them to low-cost countries after all. Never think that the politic is there to stand up for us, look how they gamble with our lives and comfort when it comes to economics. (Taxes, pension, solarpanel broken promises, energy prices, punished for having a car while cutting down public transport, irresponsible savings on public health and civil protection, … etc.)
People should think about it when they vote, even those who now have a big house, fat car and good salary, are next to nothing if circumstances turn out bad. Some might thing they no longer belong to the working class, covid had proven it is otherwise.
During this covid crisis, it accured to me that some bigmouth politicians were quit silence on this topic all of the sudden, while now they are waking up again, making big statements without ever taken any responsibility. Pointing out what is wrong is not difficult, offering a solution is quit another thing. For all things, only solutions are going to keep us going.
So, it does not surprise me that some political parties try to break the unions, that is to be expected. It is worrying however that many of the working class supports them, believing they are not just working class anymore, that they are better and unions are a problem. Think twice…..
In 2016 werd hetzelfde geopperd door Bart De Wever. Uit een studie van de cijfers van 2014 bleek toen dat de kost per dossier 2 keer zo hoog lag bij de Hulpkas der Werklozen dan bij de vakbonden.
Alles overhevelen naar de hulpkas zou dus geen oefening in efficiëntie zijn, maar enkel een ideologische aanval op de vakbonden. Sinds 2013, toen de regering Di Rupo de bijdrage voor deze activiteiten verlaagde, is het bovendien een licht verlieslatende activiteit geworden voor de vakbonden. De controle op de correcte aanwending van de middelen gebeurt sowieso al door het Rekenhof en de RVA.
Afgezien van louter ideologie is er dus geen reden om de uitbetaling volledig te laten gebeuren door de staat. Het zou enkel resulteren in een hogere dossierkast en een groter ambtenarenleger met bijhorende pensioenlast op lange termijn.
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Is this guy crazy?! He wants to have the underfunded and understaffed Hulpkas handle the unemployment benefits?
ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!
I never understood why the unions, whose main task is to represent the working people, are the ones that are paying the unemployed people. Why can the government not do that?
The MR is in the wrong government to implement this.
Long overdue.
Of course this is a mayor source of income for the unions so they will never agree to this.
What disturbs me is the fact that unions these days are very often regarded as something up to no good. I am 54, never been without a job and even this covid thing made me stay at home for just one week, then my employer has taken measures to continue work in a safe way. (Happy for that) I have a house, we own 2 cars and a motorcycle, everything got payed by working for it. I was lucky enough so far by always having a good job and never have big health problems, both can be different tomorrow, you never know.
But we should never forget that it is thank to the unions that we are represented and protected, i guess no employee would favour the ‘Daens’ situation? For sure, not everything is correct and there are wrong people in the unions too, but if they are not there; who is going to defend us? I believe it is rather dumb to believe that companies will pay a good salary if they are not forced too. It is not humanity that takes them to low-cost countries after all. Never think that the politic is there to stand up for us, look how they gamble with our lives and comfort when it comes to economics. (Taxes, pension, solarpanel broken promises, energy prices, punished for having a car while cutting down public transport, irresponsible savings on public health and civil protection, … etc.)
People should think about it when they vote, even those who now have a big house, fat car and good salary, are next to nothing if circumstances turn out bad. Some might thing they no longer belong to the working class, covid had proven it is otherwise.
During this covid crisis, it accured to me that some bigmouth politicians were quit silence on this topic all of the sudden, while now they are waking up again, making big statements without ever taken any responsibility. Pointing out what is wrong is not difficult, offering a solution is quit another thing. For all things, only solutions are going to keep us going.
So, it does not surprise me that some political parties try to break the unions, that is to be expected. It is worrying however that many of the working class supports them, believing they are not just working class anymore, that they are better and unions are a problem. Think twice…..
In 2016 werd hetzelfde geopperd door Bart De Wever. Uit een studie van de cijfers van 2014 bleek toen dat de kost per dossier 2 keer zo hoog lag bij de Hulpkas der Werklozen dan bij de vakbonden.
Alles overhevelen naar de hulpkas zou dus geen oefening in efficiëntie zijn, maar enkel een ideologische aanval op de vakbonden. Sinds 2013, toen de regering Di Rupo de bijdrage voor deze activiteiten verlaagde, is het bovendien een licht verlieslatende activiteit geworden voor de vakbonden. De controle op de correcte aanwending van de middelen gebeurt sowieso al door het Rekenhof en de RVA.
Afgezien van louter ideologie is er dus geen reden om de uitbetaling volledig te laten gebeuren door de staat. Het zou enkel resulteren in een hogere dossierkast en een groter ambtenarenleger met bijhorende pensioenlast op lange termijn.
(grammar edit)