LAB defends confrontation to achieve labor improvements and calls to take to the streets this May 1

LAB General Coordinator, Garbiñe Aranburu, believes it is necessary to “go fight in the streets”, LAB’s leader has championed the strategy of confrontation to achieve labor improvements. “It is naive to think that progress can be made without mobilization, without struggle, without activation in the workplace and on the street,” he argued.

In an interview on Radio Euskadi, Aranburu has also referred to this Monday’s May 1 celebration, opting for “transform the production and consumption modelsharing care, employment and wealth.” “We have to do this from here, on the way to a Basque state,” he said.

On the other hand, he has accused the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu and the Health Minister, Gotzone Sagardui, of “deliberately lying” when they confirm that the budget for osakidetza.

“Osakidetza is dismantled, privatized. It happens because services that are not health services for the PNV are outsourced. Another way of privatization is the alignment of health services,” he rejected.

As far as trade union relations are concerned, he regrets this DE A it seems to seek “LAB’s subordination” more than unity of action and has criticized that it resorts to “lies and manipulations”.

He has acknowledged that relations with ELA “are not at the point” they would like and has defended that in recent years LAB has made “a sincere commitment to moving forward in unity of action”, despite the fact that ELA “appears to be looking more at the deprivation of LAB”.

For example, it has accused the trade union center led by Mitxel Lakuntza of making progress in the unit of action and “periodically resort to lies and manipulations”.

“The alliance in social-Indian and political terms has a lot of potential in a process of national and social liberation and in the absence of this alliance, the bosses and the Basque neoliberals are the ones of choice,” he lamented.