Spanish brain exodus

Spanish economy is not living the bests moments, we have to complain with austerity, understanding the necessary cuts as a need to save to country... Who the hell believes that? Specially when someones are not affected by this cuts: the ones who "decide" this cuts, and the ones who order this deciders to do this cuts.


One of the results of this cuts has been mention in science. In the synchrotron we are not special. Not for the good, neither for the bad. We are only another more in the same case. We only are another example of what's happening.


From the lasts years, many of the workers in this facility left the project to find better work conditions in terms of salaries, conciliation of family live and work, better perspectives in jobs and qualifications. When the perspective is the sadness of your career and the only way to improve is to scape of the country, the result is very bad. Alba is becoming a training camp for other institutes. A non negligible percentage of the workers left the project to go work in other big facilities, when this had not been finished yet, with the consequent lost of knowledge.


Before Easter an important part of the workers of the synchrotron have lived what the last workers statute law modification (badly named labour marker law, a worker is not a product or this "market" word is insulting us). The accelerators group have had unilaterally modified their work conditions. Yes, the management agreed to negotiate this modification with the workers representatives, but it wasn't so real. Also due to that, many internal tensions has been generated and increase the sadness of the workers. And this was for free, because from 2011 the workers representatives were asking to talk about the shifts regulations, the on-call service, and who experiments can cover their support service to the users. Only one of this three aspects have been "fixed" with this "substantial work conditions modification".


But, we don't have real management! We have an acting director and another two open positions in key places: accelerators and experiments division heads! Only service divisions are still having the same head (administration, engineering, and computing). The time have given us more calm and quiet corridors and meetings with the new acting director, but the real issues didn't change so much.


Back to the Spanish situation, with cuts in the very basic columns of a society: I say education and health. Followed by cuts every where else where the 90% of the citizens are with the silly support of 9% of the richness thinking that they can become on the 1% of the sickening richness. But without doing anything to the ones of themselves who steal and embezzle the "poor" resources of this country.


90% of the people have to suffer to maintain the level where the 10% is accustomed. I understand that everyone who can, at any small opportunity, left this country.