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Today is May 1st International Workers' Day. As usual, this day in Kosovo this day was marked with a festive spirit that took people to the Germ Park but left the square empty where three protests had been called.

One of them, she called by the BSPK, received support from the Vetevendosje Movement and the Independent Group of Deputies. [Pristina] GDP] but not even workers. Only 500 people seemed to protest. Another, called by an anarchist band, had hardly convinced any workers to go out and protest with them. Thus, a colossal failure. A failure to wake you up crushed by his long slumber.

The workers' rights in Kosovo went rude, especially in the private sector. We've heard reports of the deaths of workers at the workplace. We're witnessing a lack of employment contracts. Lack of health insurance. But although working conditions are miserable, it is not enough to address the need for protest and confrontation with power.

One thing that contributes to the continuation of this slumber is the several decades of informal work, or black, performed by Kosovars in Western developed countries. Even this job was done without contract, no health insurance and no benefits, but at least with large salaries for Kosovo standards.

The state needs to strengthen the functionality of state mechanisms and expand and make the network of labour inspectors more efficient. Also, it takes a lot of sensationalizing measures for workers to react to rights violations, and address their problems in competent organs.

Why haven't we had such campaigns yet? This may be explained by the promotion of major businesses in Kosovo about the ruling political parties [especially around them, but unfortunately not only]. Since most media are owned by people who have powerful construction companies and other profiles, and who benefit from leaving workers in informality, it would be self-damaging to have a prioritization of workers' rights.

Failure to enforce the functionality of state mechanisms contributes not only to the financial interest of businesses but also to the political interest of the ruling parties. The long sleep of workers enables them to weave networks of clientelelymism and to keep them in full dependence on even the most unfavourable jobs in the job market. How can there be bad or unfavourable work in a country with unemployment of over 30%?

Thus, having a job is experienced as a privilege in our poor country with that alarming unemployment rate. This too helps to continue napping. The continuation of unconventional work that translates into the increase of financial benefits for large owners of production tools. Then we have the distribution of privileges and printing which is the cause of a general disqualified society is still unbased in meritocracy.

And the last and perhaps most important factor is the still very lively, very socially moving positioning. People may view themselves as competent even to be prime minister or country president, considering that these political positions are currently held by unqualified people. Their identity as workers of a certain job does not arise since this job is viewed as temporary, life is an expanded failure, and the possibilities of the higher penetration are there.

Where are Kosovo workers who have miserable conditions and do not protest? So, there are a host of economic, political and cultural causes that make it impossible to link and identify them as workers. In such a socio-political reality they still do not see the class/economic differences because they could easily be/being instead of their boss. This complete lack of relationships, positions, this huge dynamic, has made the worker's concept and his sensitive connection to work impossible.

The Kosovo worker is not linked to his fate as a worker. This causes other people in a position of superiority to ask him to connect themselves to that fate. They ask him to be more dignified than he is. Protest him. Not even at his party today he's not letting go of his day for more rest from hard work.

What needs to be done is simple: to increase sensationalisation campaigns and function work inspectors. That's it.