Both unions plan to return next Sunday after a two-year pandemic to “restore the streets to normal”, demanding effective measures from governments and employers to lower prices and raise wages.
The Secretaries General of CC. OO. and Euskadi’s UGT, Loli García and Raúl Arza respectively have warned employers that they will be “combatant” to secure pay increases that guarantee workers’ purchasing power by including wage review clauses in the agreements.
The two union leaders, who agree that the goal is that “no worker loses purchasing power”, made this known during the presentation in Bilbao of the demonstrations by CC. OO. and the UGT will jointly celebrate May Day in the Basque capitals under the motto “The solution: raise wages, control prices, more equality”.
#1May2022 #Maiatzak1 #1 M in Euskadic#The solution
manifestations:
Bilbao: 11:30 am Sacred Heart
Donostia: 12.00 Alderdi Eder
Vitoria-Gasteiz: 11am Virgen Blanca#SomosUGT pic.twitter.com/SHpF5XiOZ7– UGT Euskadi (@UGT_Euskadi) April 29, 2022
Both unions plan to return next Sunday after a two-year pandemic to “restore the streets to normal” to demand effective measures from governments and employers to lower prices and raise wages.
Regarding the latter demand, Loli García has warned that they “will not sign an agreement that entails a loss of purchasing power of wages”.
He said rejecting pay review clauses in the agreements “as the employers do is an opportunistic way to make irresponsible money”.
For his part, Raúl Arza deplored the “blockade” suffered by collective bargaining in the Basque Country, with more than 400,000 workers still to negotiate their agreements and with no single sectoral agreement signed so far this year, while company agreements signed affect just over 4,000 employees, according to their data.
Source: EITB
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