“We have become an important benchmark for changing government policies that worsen salaries, pensions and public services, and there are a thousand more reasons to continue fighting,” they said.
The movement of Euskal Herria retirees birthday next January 15 five years since the beginning of their mobilizations on the street with the unfinished challenge of getting the minimum pension to 1080 euros.
Representatives of this movement appeared this Thursday at a press conference on the occasion of that five-year anniversary, which they will celebrate next Monday in their weekly meetings customary, and to present a magazine and a song published on this anniversary.
Bizkaia’s spokesperson, Ana Mezo, read a statement summing up the achievements of these five years, reflected in the withdrawal of the 0.25% increase set in the 2013 PP reform and in the demonstration that the public pension system is “perfectly viable”. “.
The update of the 8.5% in pensionswhich will be applied in 2023, “can only be explained by the struggles we are fighting,” said the document, which estimates at 230 on Monday who have called demonstrations “rain or shine”.
“We have become an important benchmark for changing government policies that worsen wages, pensions and public services,” it said, adding that “there are still a thousand reasons to keep fighting“.
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