CCOO and UGT have called for mobilizations on Sunday, February 2 throughout Spain to request a new package of measures that reactivate those included in the decaying omnibus decree after the ‘no’ of Junts, Popular Party (PP) and Vox to it in Congress of the Deputies and to denounce the cancellation of all social protection measures and financing of Social Security.
In a statement, both unions have expressed their absolute rejection of this exercise of “political opportunism” which, in their opinion, will have “very high costs” on the backs of citizens.
“There are millions of people affected. Pensioners who would not see their contributory and non-contributory pension revalued, as well as minimum pensions; SMI and IMV recipients; public transport users; vulnerable people at risk of eviction or who will see their aid disappear to pay for basic supplies,” both unions lamented.
For CCOO and UGT, the ‘no’ of these three political formations represents “an unprecedented aggression” to the social majority, and especially to vulnerable people, the working class and popular classes in general.
They ask the Government for a new decree
For this reason, they will take to the streets to request the approval by the Government, through the figure of the Royal Decree Law, of a new package of measures and their subsequent validation by Congress, avoiding taking the population with greatest needs as ” hostage to this game of opportunism”, where necessary measures are voted against, many already previously agreed upon, “even with the favorable vote of those who have now caused this annulment.”
Likewise, CCOO and UGT have asked citizens to participate massively in these mobilizations and invite all social, union and political organizations that share these demands to join the mobilization process.
“Yes to the revaluation of public pensions, contributory and non-contributory. Yes to the social shield. Yes to aid for the use of public transport; Yes to resources for people affected by DANA,” they conclude.
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