The Left Bloc defended this Monday the celebration of a “great national debate” focused on the demand that the institutions that receive public financing assume an “exemplary commitment from the point of view of social and labor responsibility.”
The proposal was defended, in Lusa, in Porto, by the blocist deputy José Soeiro after a meeting with the directorate of the Casa da Música, to discuss the management models, programming and work practices in the institution.
According to the deputy, the debate should also include “the demand of the institutions that receive public funding – the Casa da Música receives 10 million euros and we can also talk about Serralves – of a commitment to exemplary in terms of social responsibility and work ”.
Stressing that the debate must take place “also at the parliamentary level and within the framework between the State and these institutions,” José Soeiro pointed out that “when the State finances, when the State contracts, when the State supports, when the State sponsors, it must demand counterparts from the point of view of the social, labor norms that institutions must have, naturally also in Culture”.
José Soeiro “thanked” the gesture of the board of directors headed by Rui Amorim de Sousa to receive the blocist delegation, “something that had not happened since 2020”, but was “concerned” about the responses received, since, according to BE, This body “has no intention of making any structural change, at least for the moment, in relation to the outsourcing model”, a model that “places essential functions in the use of ‘outsourcing’ [trabalho externo] and, therefore, in precarious work”.
At the meeting, the party sought answers to the management and programming models and the issue of labor practices.
From the beginning, BE defended the “reformulation of the foundational model”, assuming that there was “a responsibility and a public nature of the institution that should also affect its management model”, while the programming model was criticized for “a growing lack of diversity. ”.
Regarding labor practices, the deputy wants the institution to be “an example” of good practices: “We want a Casa da Música that is also exemplary from the point of view of its labor and social practices, which it has not been. Large institutions like this one should set an example, even for others, for the rest of the cultural fabric”.
“We came out of this meeting with more information, with opening notes, with the board of directors who listened to us, but in fundamental aspects what we take away, that is, in the outsourcing of functions that are essential, is that this practice will not be changed. ”, insisted the deputy BE.
Source: Observadora
