Work - an Essential Element of our Humanity ; Rad - bitni čimbenik ljudskosti

It is a fact that today work is in a state of crisis. Unemployment, dismissals, unpaid salaries and imperilled existence. great tragedies on various levels, all testify to this. The UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23 states the following: „.Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.“ This is so only on paper. How can one speak of work as an expression of man's dignity when many have been left jobless? How can this come about when the primary objective everywhere is one's own interest and profit? We can say that the issue of human work is a problem of global dimensions, a problem which prompts us to ponder economic, social and political issues but also, and perhaps primarily so, to engage in ethical-religious and spiritual reflection. ; Činjenica je da je rad danas u krizi. O tome svjedoče nezaposlenost, otpuštanja, neisplaćene plaće i ugrožene egzistencije. Velike tragedije na različitim razinama. Deklaracija UN-a o ljudskim pravima u čl. 23. govori o tome da „svatko ima pravo na rad, slobodan izbor zaposlenja, pravedne i primjerene uvjete za rad i zaštitu od nezaposlenosti. Svatko bez ikakve razlike ima pravo na jednaku naknadu za isti rad. Svatko tko radi ima pravo na pravednu i primjerenu naknadu koja njemu i njegovoj obitelji osigurava život dostojan čovjeka i koja se prema potrebi dopunjuje drugim sredstvima socijalne zaštite. Svatko ima pravo osnivati sindikate i njima pristupati kako bi zaštitio svoje interese.“ Sve je to tek na papiru. Kako govoriti čovjeku o radu kao izričaju njegova dostojanstva kada mnogi ostaju bez ...