ELA, LAB, CCOO, ESK and other unions, with the exception of UGT, have called for a strike on October 25 and December 19 to protest working conditions and service quality.
ELA, LAB, CCOO, ESK and other unions, with the exception of UGT, have called on 150,000 public sector workers to strike on October 25 and December 19 to protest working conditions and service quality.
During a press conference, the spokespersons of 85% of the public sector union representation called for a strike to demand that the Basque government, provincial and municipal councils guarantee purchasing power and consolidate public employment until temporary employment is reduced to 8% . “.
The trade union centers have denounced the ‘deterioration’ of the public sector in Euskadi, which is a ‘cross-cutting situation’ affecting ‘all areas of public employment, which are increasingly privatised’.
With the strike calls they also demand that an agreement be reached on the salaries and needs of the public sector in Euskadi; the recovery of purchasing power lost, which amounts to 20% in the last ten years; the reduction of temporary employment rates from the current 40% to 8%; the end of privatizations, and plans to guarantee the ‘real’ Basque language.
Igor Izagirre of ELA has emphasized that for ten years no agreements or regulatory agreements have been renewed in the public sphere, which includes general, local and provincial administrations, and services such as Osakidetza, Justice or Educationand recalled that “industrial conflicts” exist in almost all sectors of the institutions.
In this context, he urged the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, to “think about what is happening” and after specifying that “Euskadi is of course not a third world country, but it has clearly deteriorated over the last twenty years” , He has emphasized that in the face of so many sectoral conflicts “the only valid alternative is a strike”.
The unions have also criticized and reflected on it “very serious” that in this situation, the Basque institutions “signal surpluses in tax collection and keep in the banks 10,000 million euros generated by the Basque society itself”, while public services “deteriorate and social needs worsen”.
As they have stated, the response to their demands is “directly linked to budget allocation and investment policies.”
Source: EITB
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