The leaders of the CC.OO., Unai Sordo, and of the UGT, Pepe Álvarez, have maintained today their request to the PP to define more clearly the proposals on economic matters during the electoral campaign. From the CEOE employers, its president Antonio Garamendi has assured that the labor reform agreed a year and a half ago with the unions and the Government is valid and it is not necessary to reform it.
The three of them have participated separately this morning in the XL APIE Seminar at the UIMP in Santander, which has been held since Monday. Pepe Álvarez has valued the role of social consultation as a means to agree on different policies. “If now for ideological reasons they are questioned (the agreements) it means that the concertation has value but it is relative,” lamented the general secretary of the UGT union.
In Sordo’s opinion, “it is very difficult to repeal the reforms because they are agreed with Europe and they are working.”
Along a similar line, Garamendi recalled that some of the points of the labor reform actually respond to requests from Europe, such as the one that refers to the management of storms.
When Garamendi was asked about the organizational changes in the CEOE that will allow him to opt for a third term, the businessmen pointed out that they are agreements that have been ratified by most of the employers’ bodies.
Álvarez and Sordo have coincided in urging the Government to move forward with the scholarship holder’s statute even though elections have been called. The unionists have recalled that the Executive had promised to take it forward.
Garamendi has also referred to the economic situation that he considers to be good.
