The HOAC summer courses conclude: “Reflection on the defense of decent work”

with the title Dreaming of decent work, building practices of communionthe Workers Brotherhood of Catholic Action (HOAC) has carried out, from August 1 to 7, a new edition of its Summer Courses, a space for deepening, dialogue and coexistence that has had more than 200 people between militants and sympathizers.

For the last six years, a reflection on the defense of decent work has been proposed. These courses have continued to develop this approach centered on the proposals and practices that are defended in order to advance towards work and a decent life, and the spirituality necessary to carry out the dream of decent work.



Workdays

those of reflection, held on August 1 and 2, with the presentation Keys to spirituality and mysticism, from the service of counselors and animators and animators of the faith by Fernando C. Díaz Abajo, General Counselor of the HOAC. Pray and reflect on the mission of the counselors and animators of the faith as caretakers of the experience of the Spirit in the lives of the militants.

Those of deepening and dialoguedeveloped from August 3 to 5, on Proposals and practices for a dignified life and decent work. We have had the presentation On the way to a dignified life, passing through decent work by Raúl Flores, coordinator of studies at Cáritas Española. On the impact of informal jobs, the reality of employment in the most precarious sectors, the importance of reproductive and care work. We confirm that the best social policy is the one that leaves no one behind.

Two experiences of social and solidarity economy have also been known. Moda re—, with the intervention of its director, Albert Alberich; and Traperos Emaús Huelva, with its coordinator, Javier Rodríguez. Both projects share an objective: to collaborate in the construction of a more inclusive and sustainable society, reducing the social and environmental impact, giving a second chance to objects and people.

for a decent job

Pino Trejo, a member of the HOAC, who with the title Let’s dream of decent work! It has helped to direct our gaze towards the reality of the working world today but with the perspective of the Kingdom. From the need to dream together “dreams of fraternity that improve the world” and to continue dreaming of decent work for everyone and everywhere without letting ourselves be trapped by the temptations of “everything has been said, I on my own, let’s see with what surprises me”. We are the ones who don’t give up, the ones who pledge their lives for a dream.

It was held the Eucharist with the parish community of the church of San Sebastián, an occasion to give thanks for what has been experienced in these courses and for the 125th anniversary of the birth of Guillermo Rovirosa, promoter and first militant of the HOAC. “Gratitude to God is especially significant for his life of holiness, for having made him a worker in his harvest, and because in him, God has opened the path of tender mercy with the world of workers and work… [Él] He entrusts us to be his watchman, to announce with our life and testimony that there is another way of living truly human, the one that places us on the sacredly human side of life capable of arousing hope”.

As a sign of community commitment, a public gesture has been made in Plaza de Anaya staging situations of poverty, exclusion, unemployment, precariousness and work accidents, among others. As well as the response to these realities, based on the defense of decent work, social rights, or another distribution of wealth and the promotion of the social and solidarity economy.

the HOAC calls to “dream together for decent work” because dreams, as Pope Francis points out, “have the ability to set us in motion, to set us on a path” and because “at this time they do not reach the brain and the hands, we also need the heart and the imagination”. A dream that claims:

? Access to stable employment and respect for the essential dignity of every person

? The reduction of the working day to reconcile and rescue creative time from the demands of production

? The need to promote social rights and public services, as inalienable human rights

? Strict compliance with the Law on the Prevention of Occupational Risks and the inspection and control measures that prevent illness and death: Work is for life

? The promotion and encouragement of training and the worker culture of solidarity

? For the creation of meeting spaces between the world of work and the Church

? The redistribution of wealth through a basic income or universal wage

? The culture of the common good that allows to share goods, time, practice other consumption and strengthen the economy of the common good, social and solidarity

The HOAC summer courses conclude: “Reflection on the defense of decent work”