Valladolid, April 27 (EFE).- The regional leaders of the UGT, Faustino Temprano, and CCOO, Vicente Andrés, have called for massive mobilizations this May 1 in the 14 towns of Castilla y León where they will take to the streets together.
Raise wages, lower prices and distribute benefits: the motto
The objective is to recover purchasing power in a Community, in which there are 91 pending collective agreements, with 191,000 workers affected.
In addition to all the provincial capitals, the unions will mobilize in Medina del Campo, Aranda de Duero, Miranda de Ebro, Aguilar de Campoo and Ponferrada this May 1 with the slogan “Raise wages, lower prices and distribute benefits”.
First mobilizing step: then to unblock the collective agreements
Both unionists have anticipated that May 1 will only be a first step in the mobilizations, since if it is not possible to unblock the collective bargaining with the employers at the national level, about which they have been pessimistic, there will be protests at the sectoral level in the Community.
They are “moderate approaches, we do not ask for gold or moro, nor gain purchasing power, just maintain it” taking into account the rise in the CPI, one point more than the national average in Castilla y León, a Community in which wages are below Below average, Temprano reflected.
A waiter in Valladolid charges 1,077 euros by agreement
As an example of what it means that no progress has been made in collective bargaining, with agreements that have not been updated in 2022 or 2023 at a time of galloping inflation, Vicente Andrés recalled that, for example, a Zamora de a first class establishment has a salary of 1,059 euros.
And a waiter in a three-star establishment in Valladolid, 1,077, and a master pastry chef in León, 1,040.
“It is a ridiculous salary” in Castilla y León, with salaries absorbed by the SMI without “any improvement”, so either “there is a distribution or there is a conflict with the companies due to their selfishness in not sharing benefits”, the CCOO regional leader.
Andrés has called on employers not to be “so greedy” when large private companies are making record profits.
Claim more salary: they target large companies
Temprano has specified that this demand for a rise in wages is not against SMEs, in a Community in which 95 percent of companies have less than five workers, but against large companies, which also have an impact on the previous ones by making “ subcontractors that take benefits” from small businesses and self-employed workers.
The two unions also demand price containment measures from the central government, since those that have been implemented, such as the reduction of VAT on some products, have had no effect.
Both Temprano and Andrés have referred to the government of the PP-Vox Community, and its “breach” of the current agreements derived from the consultation processes with the Autonomous Government, the so-called tripartite social dialogue.
This, with the consequent elimination of multiple programs and lines of action in these fields of employment, training, occupational health, guidance, equal opportunities, gender equality, counseling for immigrants or policies in favor of victims of gender violence.
MESSAGE FOR THE ELECTIONS ON MAY 28: IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO GOVERNS
The two trade unionists have also referred to the upcoming municipal elections and in several autonomies with the message that “it doesn’t matter who governs”, in the words of Vicente Andrés.
“You have to choose the future well by voting well, electing democratic people who do not deny reality and the dangers to the planet,” added the CCOO leader in reference to Vox’s denial of climate change.
“We cannot take a step back,” Temprano has demanded, regarding the policies that some parties have announced to repeal the labor or pension reform if they manage to govern.
They trust that Mañueco will remove Vox from the Government after May 28
And they have trusted that the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, will “come down” from his Government to Vox after the elections on May 28, to restore normality “in the Community, in the words of the leader of the Workers’ Commissions, Vicente Andrew.
The situation of the coalition government between the PP and Vox today focused part of the press conference between Andrés and his UGT counterpart, Faustino Temprano, on the mobilizations on May 1st.
Early on, he has stressed that one of the Community’s hallmarks, social dialogue, has been “finished” by the Community Government, and has argued that the change in policies that Castilla y León needs “happens because Vox leaves the Autonomous government.
Vicente Andrés has lamented the “permanent spectacle and daily ridicule” of the Government and has asked Mañueco to “remove Vox from the Government” to “restore normalcy” in the Community.
“There is a basis for consensus and rigor”, reflected the CCOO leader, who referred to the breakdown of social dialogue, “the jewel in the Crown and of participatory democracy”, eliminating everything, “what is illegal” .
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