Barakaldo, with the votes of the PNV and EH Bildu, shows his discomfort with the pronunciation of the Basque language

The City Hall of Barakaldowith the votes of PNV and EH Bilduhas approved one institutional statement, which has received no other support, expressing its “concern and discomfort” at the sentence that annulled the requirement of a linguistic profile in Basque for the employees of a subcontractor in charge of the management of cultural services. The statement was approved in a Board of Spokespersons that the PSE-EE, a partner of the PNV in the municipal administration, did not attend and has been described by the socialists as “farce” and “a solemn fraud”.

The statement indicates that the ruling of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV), which will not be appealed, has caused “concern and inconvenience” to the city council because “the legal framework may be called into question”. “progress in the normalization of Basque in the public sector”.

PNV and EH Bildu they defend “the legal legitimacy and competence of the entire Basque public administration to establish the linguistic profiles and principles of public jobs, putting the linguistic rights of citizens at the center”. In addition, they reiterate their concern about the possibility that “the work” carried out “for years” in favor of the Basque language could be reversed, and they call for support this Friday at 7 p.m. in Bide Onera square, the language rights meeting organized by the local Sasiburu association.

The PSE-EE indicated in a statement that the City Council “has already given up the appeal” against the verdict and stressed that the clause overturned by TSJPV, which “imposed the language requirement on all subcontractors”, meant “weakening of security in its position of the workers of the Houses of Culture”. The PSE-EE supported “the normalization of the use of Basque and the defense of the linguistic rights of all citizens”, but considered that “they cannot be used as an excuse” to “protect the labor rights of some workers who are not have decided to outsource the work of the service”.

“Defending the language rights of all citizens, yes. Defending the labor rights of the whole working class too. And if it is difficult to make them compatible in certain situations, look for a realistic solution, and of course always far from imposing some to others,” noted Barakaldo’s PSE-EE.

Elkarrekin Barakaldo, who voted against, denounced the absence of “self-criticism” in the institutional declaration and accused the PNV of “relegating” the language rights of citizens and workers “to the last place” for years. Learn Basque.

The PP has apologized for his absence from the Council of Spokespersons this morning, but has expressed his position contrary to the institutional statement approved at the request of EH Bildu.

For his part, he CCOO union He has denounced “the commitment to the rupture of the linguistic consensus of the PNV and EH Bildu” and has called the position of the PNV “shameful” because it has not appealed the verdict and “claims” in the above statement “the legality of his action”.

The CCOO of the Basque Country has called on the Barakaldo PNV to “comply with the agreed rules on language profiles”, and has called on the Basque government to “return to the path of transversal and plural consensus in defining Basque language policy”.

The union has ensured that “we are faced with the confrontation of two country models: the public and inclusive promotion of Basque, as opposed to an exclusive profiling policy, which aims to individualize the money and time required to learn Basque privatize”.