ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGT

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In the midst of a scenario with clear symptoms pointing to the arrival of a new economic crisis, the manifestations of the May 1 This Sunday they will return to normal after the 2020 and 2021 restrictions due to the covid-19 pandemic. As usual, the main unions take to the streets in towns and cities with different slogans and separately.

The majority trade union on the Basque map ELA will focus its demands on the fight against uncertainty According to this central complaint, in Hego Euskal Herria, more than 541,600 people have precarious jobs (407,300 in the CAV and 134,330 in Navarre) and women are the ones who suffer most from this reality. “Ending these precarious jobs is the most important task of the union and the reality shows that the union struggle is the most effective way,” he explains.

Under the slogan ‘Borrokan ari gara-Let’s put an end to uncertainty’, ELA has convened demonstrations in the four capitals of Hego Euskal Herria:

These are the main ELA calls

– Bilbao, 11:30, Sacred Heart

– Pamplona, ​​​​​​11:30, Plaza de la Cruz

– Vitoria-Gasteiz, 12:00 White Virgin

– Donostia, 11:30, Alderdi Eder

LAB for its part will bring its mobilizations to the capitals and main cities of Euskal Herria with the slogan ‘Altxa! Early dezagun possible. For the dissemination of care, employment and wealth “Capitalism exploits the planet and the people. It expropriates the working class, it does it by not recognizing care work, making labor relations precarious and dismantling public services. In this way there is a transfer of income from work to income from capital , an insecurity that extends to all areas of life, making life more and more expensive and impoverishing the workers,” warns the central abertzale.

According to LAB, this situation is not a result “neither of the pandemic nor of the war in Ukraine”, but is due to capitalism only after “decades of neoliberal policies”.

Where they have managed to join forces and summon a united demonstration is in Ipar Euskal Herria. CGT, BIZI!, FSU, ALDA, EBA, CFDT and ETORKINEKIN Solidarite migrants will mobilize together in Baiona and Maule from 11:00 am.

These are the main LAB calls

– Pamplona, ​​​​​​12:00, Plaza del Castillo

– Bilbao, 11:00, Zabalburu

– Donostia, 12:00, Plaza Easo

– Vitoria-Gasteiz, 12 noon, Plaza de la Virgen Blanca

– Baiona, 11:00, Stock Exchange Building

CCOO and UGT van Euskadi will commemorate the workers’ party together, as they have celebrated in previous editions. Under the slogan chosen for this year’s “The solution: raise wages, control prices, more equality”, both unions plan to return on Sunday after two years of pandemic to “restore the streets to normal” to take effective action. to demand action from governments and employers to lower prices and higher wages. With regard to the latter question, they have warned that they “will not sign any agreement that entails a loss of purchasing power of wages”.

In this sense, both CCOO and UGT deplore the “blockade” suffered by collective bargaining in the Basque Country, with more than 400,000 employees with their agreements pending negotiation and without a single sectoral agreement signed so far this year, while the companies that have signed up affect just over 4,000 employees, according to their data.

These are the main CCOO and UGT calls:

– Bilbao, 11:30, Sacred Heart

– Donostia, 12:00, Alderdi Eder

– Vitoria-Gasteiz, 11:00, Plaza de la Virgen Blanca