The general secretary of Comisiones Obreras, Unai Sordo, guaranteed this Friday that a conflict scenario will arise in the coming months if the CEOE commits “the courage” to wait for a change in the political cycle and during this time an “adequate” distribution of salaries. A clear message of conflict addressed to the president of the employers’ association, Antonio Garamendi, at the gates of the protest mobilizations that will take place across the country on the occasion of May 1, International Workers’ Day. In an action organized by the Communist Party of Spain, Sordo warned that if there is no wage agreement, the unions must “put all the meat on the grill” and bet on a scenario of mobility or strikes coming “as far as they have reached” . “Does the CEOE really want to address this scenario with a risk of conflict in Spain?” asked the head of the Workers’ Committees. “It is irresponsible policy. There must be a distribution of wealth through salary, businessmen can resources they have,” he added. “Perplexed” with SMEs and the self-employed Sordo also stated during his speech that he is “perplexed” by the “combativity” he says the representatives of SMEs and the self-employed have shown in the employers’ organization for the creation of a business margins observatory. In this sense, he pointed out that both the self-employed and small entrepreneurs should “shout” for this observatory. Also for creating an index that records how companies are doing economically, to For its part, the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, also supported this Friday in the same law of the PCE the demand for a salary increase maintained by the CCOO and UGT, including a better remuneration for government officials. In this sense, he called it “humiliation” that large companies are not improving the salaries of their staff, despite recording “gross profits”, with company margins that have “multiplied up to seven times”. He also defended the need to implement deep tax reform that would end the country’s “tax privileges” as it is not content with temporary and “light” taxes on large incomes and assets; but also to tackle short-time work.
Source: La Verdad
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