The General Secretaries of Workers’ Commissions, Unai Sordo, and of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, have urged the Government to include in the General State Budgets a social agenda that includes, among other matters, the reduction of the working day to 37, 5 hours and the commitment that the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) does not cotice for personal income tax.
Both unions have convened various concentrations throughout Spain after the vote against PP, Vox and Junts to the Omnibus decree that included the rise in pensions, the extension of the public transport bonus or aid by the DANA of Valencia.
Finally, the majority unions have chosen to maintain the protest despite the fact that the government has re -approved social measures in a new decree.
In the one held in Madrid, which has been attended by just over a hundred attendees, Sordo and Álvarez have affected the distance that separates the concerns of citizens from the interests of parliamentarians.
The Secretary General of UGT has clarified that the unions are on the street “to claim that Parliament does not kidnap the rights of citizens”, since, in their opinion, the Congress of Deputies “breached approved laws”, as It is the revaluation of pensions.
Therefore, union organizations “are going further” of the Omnibus decree, which has not negotiated with them and does not cover the needs of citizens “or far”
Among other demands, the unions will demand that the SMI be exempt from IRPF, as well as the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours, a “permanent claim” that, if it does not obtain a response from the government, will lead to new Manifestations, Pepe Álvarez said.
From CCOO, Unai Sordo stressed that the concentration has the support of organizations of all kinds and all over Spain, after a couple of weeks in which “a decree law has been in danger” that renews the social shield.
During these days there have been very worrying “pactal games”, which show that citizens separation of interest from social majorities and those of politicians, has denounced.
“We want the government to start a social agenda,” he added, because in Spain “there is a lot of precariousness” and the unions must be “very attentive and vigilant” of what is done in Congress.
The unions must “control” the legislative, which has to be “brave”, especially when it has been seen that there is an “right and extreme right” alternative that endangers workers’ conquests.
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