MADRID, 30 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
CCOO and UGT will take to the streets tomorrow May 1 in more than 70 cities in Spain under the motto ‘Raise wages, lower prices, distribute benefits’, in a context of tension with the employers due to the stagnation of the negotiation of the V Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining.
The general secretaries of both unions, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, respectively, will attend the demonstration in Madrid, which will start at 12:00 pm from Gran Vía and end in the Plaza de España.
The general secretaries of the CCOO and UGT in Madrid, Paloma López and Marina Prieto, who will intervene at the closing of the event in Plaza de España, together with Sordo and Álvarez, will also attend this appointment.
In addition to the one in Madrid, the unions have called a total of 73 demonstrations throughout Spain so that workers from all over the country can mobilize.
The UGT secretary pointed out last week, at the press conference to present the act, that the call for so many demonstrations in the country is “significant information about the importance” that the unions give to this “demand” date.
For Sordo, this year’s motto, ‘Raise wages, lower prices, distribute benefits’, which, in Sordo’s opinion, cannot be “more concrete” or “synthesize more the demands of the trade unions”.
The CCOO general secretary indicated that this May 1st is “very close” to the beginning of a “transcendental political cycle for Spain”, with the regional and municipal elections on May 28th.
For this reason, he asked that this May 1 be a day “of balance”, of the advances in labor and pension material that have been achieved in this legislature, with the protection of 18 million incomes, among pensioners, beneficiaries of the Salary Interprofessional Minimum (SMI) and beneficiaries of salary increases by agreement, among others.
The arrival of this May 1st also announces the end of the term that the unions gave to the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) to reach an agreement on the V AENC.
The CCOO and UGT warn of an increase in mobilizations in the second part of the year if there is no progress in the AENC, and they will take advantage of this May 1st so that the employers feel “the breath of the country’s streets demanding that they put an end to greed, with the usury that business profits represent, in some cases,” as Álvarez said last week.
