"Ethical wage": A political council

Yesterday, the President Michelle Bachelet announced the members designed for his "Advisory Commission for the Social Fairness". There are a lot of industrialists and economists, and practically there isn't any "social actor". The reason for doing this is because it's a "technical council".

In politics, there are two reasons for doing things: showing a position, or hiding it. This is a council for hiding, keeping, stoping. "Social actors" is not always the same that "popular actors", that's right, but if technics are technics, it's just in that point that there shouldn't exist any advisory council (for example, it's ridiculous being on a debate about the possible interpretations of 2+2=4). An advisory council is not a technical space, it's a political one. And there's a lot of positions excluded of that political debate, not just the worker union leaders (like, for example, the president of the Unitary Central of Workers (CUT) ), also everyone who made possible that in Chile we're all discussing about "ethical wage", like the Priest Alejandro Goic or the workers from CODELCO.

We don't have to forget that we're discussing about "ethical wage" because of the protest of CODELCO workers. Also, we don't have to forget that the Government did everything it could for destroying that strike, like buying leaders or talking about a "vandalic protest" in general when the vandalic acts weren't a constant thing: they were a few. In spite of that, they could make that everyone in Chile is debating about the laboral conditions in our country. And what did the President do? She invited Lily Pérez to the council, surely a great "expert" in technical and labor issues, don't?

So, when they talk about a "technical council" is because they're hiding the real condition of that council: there is a political debate. And also with that they're hiding that there are important and representative positions that are excluded.