In spite of everything, we have to declare our solidarity with others

Abstract

Regarding the unemployment and its injurious individual and group consequences, many proposals have been thought, among them the cooperatives like a worthy option to generate employment and income. The constant complaints of the traditional industrialists are about the complexities of the Colombian labour regime; in arder to overcome the obstacles, the joint sector offers alternatives for the Colombian people, specially for professionals, with forms of organization that improve the conditions for the worker and turn him into the owner of production means, with forms of organization of capital through such as associations and owners, which implies new regulations to ease their inclusion in the formal economy, named Cooperative of Associated Work, CTA. The gap between theory and practice must be analysed in the joint sector because while their postulates give main importance to the worker as creator, actually the complaints of professionals refer to the accelerated growth in the number of CTA that are contracting the people like workers and not like associates, they evade the payments as creators and assimilate them to the common labour legislation, the CTA are not created by initiative of workers but by suggestion of the companies so that workers are used like outsourcing and companies evade its labour obligations. This associative figure , without the fissures that are attributed to it, would be a very good option against the unemployment of the Colombian professionals.