Malagasy workers down

 
In 2011, having a job is no pledge for any decent life standard above the poverty line. The   ruling power´s ban on any form of popular demonstration and its security forces´ threat are not enough to explain the general lack of interest for May 1st. The FISEMARE union held a small scale conference any meaningful echo. The union confessed its impotence in face of the total neglect of workers. Only 10% of the Malagasy workers are belonging to a union.    
are social conflicts unsuited to crisis times? Could there possibly be any instinctive solidarity between workers and the bosses? The latest employment related breaking news concerned Malagasy workers in Lebanon. The case has no interest for unions in general, although the union of social workers committed to address this issue.    
The transitional authorities decided to close the door to what is being considered as modern slavery. The repatriation operation organized by the HAT was however half a success. The workers subscribed on the list have been preceded by different other ones.  This merely symbolic action was deemed to display a symbolic reaction capability from the ruling power.    
The concerned agencies do keep on skirting around the ban. After Lebanon, Saudi Arabia is the next destination for young women in quest of work abroad. Poorly trained and barely speaking women are still longing for housemaids´ jobs. The real risks of often lethal ill-treatment are not enough to deter young women from daring the odds for a possible $150 high reward a month, 300 000 Ariary.    
Bad situation for employment     
Andry Rajoelina´s led so named orange revolution capitalized into hundreds of thousands of job losses. The textile industry´s jobs were the first victims due to the suspension of the AGOA subsequent to the new ruling power´s stand. The crisis has irretrievably slowed the job offer down. The fourth sector is thereupon reinforced, and became the country´s undisputed first economic strength for generating the equivalent of 3 billions of dollars a year, 30% of the GDP.    
The industrial sector has been seriously affected by a 30% high drop of its turnovers. Now that both large scale mining projects had ended their recruitment, job creation goes slower on. The tertiary sector got it a little bit better. New technologies do create job opportunities either directly or through off shore corporations.    
The trade´s pyramidal pattern is making that Malagasy workers have to make do with crumbs. A superior education´s graduate earns between 150 to 250 Euros a month for a job which would be paid 1500 Euros abroad. The Malagasy worker has to go for two or three jobs at a time to make it through. Overemployment turns out to be a privilege when underemployment engulfs the majority. Only a 7% high minority is officially combing the sand, but more than 50% of people have no decent jobs.