The main unions, CCOO and UGT, have come together today in Valencia to appeal to the working class before the upcoming elections on 23-J. And they demand that she vote “massively” for the “options for progress”, as Unai Sordo, general secretary of the CCOO, has defended. The proposal of the majority unions is to “try to repeat” a coalition government for the next four years in Spain and in their commitment they put forward the agreements reached in the social dialogue.
In the joint assembly of delegates held in La Rambleta de València, they have presented their proposals for the next elections, which include a new one for industry, addressing the regulation of the 32-hour working day, strengthening the compensation system for unfair dismissal, a reform more progressive fiscal policy and a comprehensive care pact, among others.
In his speech, Sordo pointed out that in these elections “much more than the turnismo or the exchange that may exist in a government is at stake, it is at stake how Spanish society is configured in the coming decades at a time of extremely intense economic transformations , social and geopolitical”.
And he alluded to Aznar’s proposal to return to austerity and, in this regard, he said that “if in Spain we go to a government that intends to drastically reduce public spending, we are going to miss the train of transformations. This is at stake in our country”.
Along the same lines, Pepe Álvarez, general secretary of the UGT, has called on union delegates and workers to be “aware that on 23-J, above all, we are risking the rights we have won”, and to speak in their environments on issues such as the revaluation of pensions and the Labor Reform, among other policies with which “a base” has been built that has “cost a lot” to reach.
It asks the workers “not to stay at home” and “participate” for the continuity of rights. “Four more years of a government of progress are needed to allow our country to continue advancing,” she stressed.
In a Valencian key, the general secretary of the CCOO-PV, Ana García Alcolea, has called for a reform of regional financing that takes into account “illegitimate debt” because “what we are talking about when we talk about regional financing is to preserve the State Welfare, the rights we have, public services, health and education”.
Likewise, the general secretary of the UGT-PV, Ismael Sáez, has recalled the bank bailouts and the financial difficulties of the Generalitat Valenciana in 2012, to lament that “sometimes memory is very thin and it is convenient to remember the past times”.
