Be the “best mason in Spain”. This is what is at stake. This is what, brick in hand, those who participate in the 57th edition of the “National Masonry Competition”. This, and also to ensure the future of a profession in danger. Which, as they say, “will go to hell in four or five generations.”
Because the unemployment data is clear. For the first time since 2011, the unemployed in the construction sector They fell below 200,000, and they fear that the situation will get worse over the years.
The reasons they give are clear: “The wage bills are very low, and we are not a mirror for a young child to look at us.
“The 2008 crisis is largely responsible for this. It threw out many professionals and These people taught the younger ones. “It’s over,” said another mason.
So double mission the one who bears this title. The first, to decide who will be the best mason in Spain in a competition that, for them, “is like winning the Champions League”. The second, to safeguard the future of the profession. A future that presents itself with many doubts.
