Seville, (EFE).- The CCOO and UGT unions have demanded this Friday that the Government of Andalusia comply with the urgent measures included in the social agreement signed in March. Like the bonds for vulnerable families, the high-cost bond is a payment of 200 euros for low incomes. A youth employment plan and another to combat workplace accidents.
The general secretaries in Andalusia of the CCOO, Nuria López, and of the UGT, Carmen Castilla, have summoned the Board to comply with these urgent measures. Because “it’s already late” and they have warned that the “agreements are to be fulfilled and they are not blank checks.”
At a press conference, the union leaders presented the events organized on the occasion of May Day. They have reported that this year they have chosen Jaén for the central event because it is the province of Andalusia with the highest rate of unemployment and temporary employment. With the lowest salaries and with a deficit in infrastructures and investments, they have explained.
In addition to calling attention to the Andalusian Government, the union leaders have reported that this May Day, which takes place with the motto “raise wages, lower prices and distribute benefits”, they demand “fair” wage increases from employers. They have warned that “inflation cannot be an excuse for employers to deny” wage increases to workers in a scenario of high inflation.
“Greedy and irresponsible” businessmen
The CCOO leader has accused the employers of “greedy and irresponsible for attributing the costs of inflation to the workers.” When they are having significant business benefits. And she has denounced her attitude “unsupportive of making workers impoverished, that families are economically suffocated and that the country does not grow anymore.”
In this sense, he has made an appeal to the Spanish employers CEOE and the Andalusian CEA to “open their minds”. And they agree to distribute part of the benefits among the workers. Since, “if they do not sit down to negotiate, there will be conflict.”
The UGT leader has ensured that the unions defend fair wage increases. And she has accused them of blocking the negotiation of the Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining. Because the bosses “do not even want to sit down and negotiate.”
“Family budgets do not arrive, the shopping cart is increasingly inaccessible and while the average salary increase is 2.6%,” the UGT leader has alleged. She has pointed out that there is a lot of conflict in companies in Andalusia. “With entrenched agreements that force workers to demonstrate at the door of their company, as is the case with Amazon. EFE