Jaén/Almería, (EFE).- The UGT and CCOO unions in Andalusia have launched a notice to the employers this Monday and have stressed that “either raise wages or there will be conflicts”, as warned by the general secretary of UGT-A, Carmen Castile.
Jaén has hosted the central demonstration in Andalusia on May Day, which has been attended by around a thousand people, according to the unions, and some 700 according to the estimate offered by the National Police to the Government Delegation in Andalusia.
Under the motto “Raise wages, lower prices, distribute benefits”, the demonstration took place in a festive and demanding atmosphere at the same time through the center of the capital of Jaen, chosen for being a province with a high unemployment rate, which has the lowest pensions and its high job insecurity.
In the act of Jaén, Carmen Castilla has urged the businessmen to sit down to negotiate the fifth agreement for collective bargaining and has asked “to reach agreements and distribute the wealth, because they are making money.”
High unemployment in Andalusia
In relation to unemployment, Castilla has indicated that Andalusia has a rate of 18.3%, 5 points above the state average, and has expressed concern about the high rate of youth unemployment in Andalusia, of 38%.
“What happens with those young people who finish their studies and have to leave their land to be able to work?” Castilla pointed out, who also lamented that six out of ten unemployed in Andalusia have the face of a woman.
For her part, also in Jaén, the general secretary of the CCOO in Andalusia, Nuria López, has emphasized the rise in wages for workers and has indicated that “it is not possible that we always bear the costs of inflation the workers and workers.
Low overall participation
The participation data in the rest of the provinces have not been especially high. In Seville, for example, the UGT and CCOO demonstration has brought together some 1,200 people, according to the National Police. Starting from Puerta Jerez to Plaza Nueva, it has had the participation of the PSOE-A general secretary, Juan Espadas.
The socialist has lamented “the death of a worker in a bus accident in Almonte (Huelva)” and has wished “a speedy recovery for the temporary women who have been injured.”
The heat and the festive bridge have motivated demonstrations in Córdoba with little influx, which have reached up to 2,500 attendees, according to the unions, although the Police reduce them to 1,500.
It has started in the gardens next to the Red Cross and has traveled the main avenues of the Cordoba capital, it has been held with total normality and without incident, and it has concluded in the Plaza de las Tendillas, where a “salary increase” has been claimed. , because otherwise there will be “labor conflict”.
In Granada, some 2,500 people, according to the National Police, have marched in a festive atmosphere from the Jardines del Triunfo to the Plaza del Carmen led by a banner with the central motto of this May Day.
The demonstrators have also exhibited posters against the liberalization of business hours, for conciliation and for the 4-day (32-hour) weekly working day, with space also for the defense of public health and the demands for decent work.
The Government, in Grenada
The delegate of the Government of Spain in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, has participated in Molvízar (Granada) in the demonstration on the occasion of May Day called by the PSOE, which began by lamenting the accident that occurred early this Monday in Almonte, with the overturning of a bus that has cost the life of a Moroccan seasonal worker and injured 37 others, and has transferred all its “solidarity and support” to the families and co-workers of those affected.
In the capital of Huelva, some 450 people have participated in the demonstration that has started from Plaza 12 de Octubre to the central Paseo de Santa Fe and on this day the CCOO and UGT unions have demanded a rise in wages, something that in Huelva It is more necessary than in other territories as it is a province in which its workers have “the second lowest average salary in the country with an average salary of 15,200 euros per year.”
In Almería some 430 people have left from the Levante Dock of the Port of Almería to end their march at the Puerta de Purchena, where they have read a manifesto to claim quality employment as the first union objective and the challenges to improve the labor market .
Table in Defense of the Almería Railway
The unions have invited this mobilization to the Table in Defense of the Almería Railway, which has taken the opportunity to demand medium-distance and long-distance trains with Madrid, in addition to denouncing the deficits of connections such as those of Almería with Seville.
Some 1,500 people, according to the National Police, have participated in the demonstration in Malaga, in which there has been a memory for the Moroccan seasonal worker who died in the bus accident registered this Monday in Almonte.
In the demonstration, which was attended by political leaders such as the IU coordinator in Andalusia, Toni Valero, an economic pact with businessmen for the distribution of profits, as well as lower prices, was demanded. He has criticized the fact that workers contribute 33 percent of their payroll to state revenue.
In Cádiz, according to Police data, some 650 people have participated in the UGT and CCO demonstration, some 200 in the Confluencia del Metal Bahía de Cádiz, and another 250 in Algeciras. EFE