Huelva (EFE) They have lost purchasing power.
“That is why it is so important to raise the minimum wage or it is relevant to revalue pensions… and that is why we also demand that the employers sit down with the unions and that those benefits that large companies have not only go to those at the top, but also the workers of these large companies”, Sánchez pointed out during the closing ceremony of the PSOE Municipal Convention in Andalusia, where he officially presented the party’s motto “Defend what you think”.
A motto that defends -he has said- “what the majority thinks”, which is, for example, being aware that “a pension system is guaranteed with decent salaries that will be the decent pensions of tomorrow”.
“They said for months that we were not going to be able to reform pensions and those who devalued and froze them when they governed said it. When it is just the opposite”, Sánchez said in an act before some 850 people in which the general secretary of the PSOE in Andalusia, Juan Espadas, participated; the mayor of Huelva, Gabriel Cruz, and the president of the Huelva Provincial Council, María Eugenia Limón.
Also supported by the Ministers of Finance and Science and Innovation, María Jesús Montero and Diana Morant, respectively, Sánchez has made it clear that “today, tomorrow and always we will defend the revaluation of pensions as the best way to guarantee a dignified retirement”.
The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE has defended that “what you think is important” and “no matter the noise, the tension, the disqualification or the insults” of those who “have nothing else to offer the citizens and they cannot show it because they do not connect with the demands of the social majority”.
He has warned that the “neoliberal and cutbacks” policies of the government of Mariano Rajoy will need a decade of “progressive policies” to be reversed, and has stressed that the working middle class, although it has gained 10% in real wages, has lost purchasing power with a 17% increase in prices in recent years.
“And that is why (the employers) have to sit down so that in collective bargaining the benefits are distributed fairly,” he stressed.