The good way or the bad way. This is the idea that the unions want to convey to employers this May Day. Following the slogan "Raise wages, lower prices and distribute benefits", the union leaders have urged citizens to take to the streets today in the 73 demonstrations called throughout Spain to ask the unions for a wage increase, which if it does not arrive in the month of May, will translate into mobilizations next autumn.
“Either there is a salary agreement or the unions will start organizing sessions for the fall. Demonstrations that will end in strikes in those groups in which the collective agreements are unjustly blocked”, has assured the general secretary of CC.OO., Unai Sordo.
Union representatives have raised today the achievements made in recent years as an example of the social and labor progress that involves applying union demands to labor policies.
The bulky business profits that have been known in recent weeks support these claims. "Wealth cannot be built on poverty and the precariousness of people," said Paloma López, general secretary of CC.OO.
But not only have the businessmen been rebuked, Sordo has also put the public sector in the focus of the claims. "There is no way out without a strong boost from the public sector," warned the leader.
Pepe Álvarez, general secretary of the UGT, has harangued the self-employed and small businessmen to join the demands of this May Day. “They are part of that chain of exploitation. Just like the workers are threatened by the large corporations that keep the great benefits and downstream does not arrive either to build what is entrusted, or to pay the workers”.
Like Sordo, the UGT leader has launched his threat. “Either in a very short period of time there is an agreement, or the conflict will be for the sectors with collective agreements with an open table. And it is already known that the mobilizations are known how they begin but not how they end”, Álvarez pointed out in a clear warning to social peace.
Ball on the roof of the CEOE launched by the unions to which the Minister of Labor herself, Yolanda Díaz, has set a date. "I appeal to the CEOE to accept the salary increase imminently in the month of May," Díaz warned.
"The unions were right. It is essential to raise wages. The median salary in Spain is 21,000 euros. This is around 1,500 euros in 14 payments a year. An amount that does not allow people to live with dignity in large cities. And that Entrepreneurs know this perfectly”, Díaz pointed out.
The Minister of Labor has gone beyond wage demands and has pointed out the keys to what will be the next objectives of her portfolio. “We want free time, live with dignity, reduce the working day without reducing salary. Time and care must be at the center of labor policies, we must aim for a change in inflection ”, she requested.
