The general coordinator of LAB, the ELA union “is more interested in its business interests.” However, he assures that while there is “no global agreement between ELA and LAB”, agreements are being reached in small businesses.
The differences and the near-zero unity of action between ELA and LAB are a result of ELA’s strategy of choosing to “watch its navel” rather than “watch over the rights of the working class”. This is explained by Secretary General of LAB, Igor Arroyo, accusing the power plant headed by Mitxel Lakuntza of “not being up to the task”. “LAB will continue to work to reassemble the working class as a collective (…), while ELA is more interested in its corporate interests,” he said.
However, he has acknowledged that while “there is no cooperation at the global level” between the two nationalist unions, agreements are being reached at the corporate level that “we have to give them their value”.
Interviewed in the program “Boulevard” by Radio Euskadic, Arroyo also referred to the October unemployment figures published this morning. In his opinion, the picture reflected by these data is not real, as they do not represent “the precarious situation of the working class”. He has emphasized that the working conditions of almost half of the workers in Euskal Herria are precarious.
Likewise, he acknowledged that the “fact of having a job” improves people’s situation, but this does not mean that the fight for decent working conditions should not be stopped. In this sense, he sees the working class as “highly motivated” and assures that “we are experiencing an unparalleled level of mobilization”.
Asked about the strike in the metal sector in Bizkaia, Arroyo emphasized “the massive follow-up” of the third day of the strike and did not rule out further demonstrations in case the employers do nothing. “Now it is up to the employers of the FVEM to analyze the monitoring data that has been massive, as much as they do not want to acknowledge it publicly. A reflection period is opened for the employers and we hope that they will change their position”, clarified he.
Finally, regarding the CAV budget project for 2023, he felt that they are “revolving” accounts designed to obtain “short-term benefits” and “cannot withstand the economic and social crisis we are going through”.
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