On this first day of strike, they will demand that “the Basque government, councils and municipal councils guarantee purchasing power and consolidate public employment until temporary employment is reduced to 8%.” The second strike will take place on December 19.
ALS, LAB, CC. OO., Steilas, ESK and other unions, with the exception of UGT, have called for this strike tomorrow, October 25, at 150,000 employees of the public sector to protest against Working Conditions and the quality of service.
In this way they will demand the Basque government, the provincial and municipal councils to do so Guarantee He purchasing power And consolidate public employment until the temporality is reduced to 8%”.
The trade union centers have denounced the matter “deterioration” of the public sector in Euskadi, which is a ‘transversal situation’ affecting ‘all areas of public employment, increasingly privatized“.
They also demand this with the strike calls agree on salaries in Euskadi and public sector needs; the recovery of lost purchasing power, which amounted to 20% over the past 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.
Trade unions ask EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Podemos for their support
ALS, LAB, CC. OO., Steilas, Satse and ESK, unions call two days’ strike (the second on December 19) in the public sector they met yesterday, Monday, representatives of EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Podemos to ask them “to use their voice in Madrid to negotiate public sector salaries and employment in Euskadi.”
As these unions with representation in all public services present in Euskadi have noted, only these two parties have responded to their request addressed to all political parties that obtained representation in Euskadi in the last general elections of Euskadi. hold meetings to convey their demands. After emphasizing that the rest of the political formations, PNV, PSE-EE and PP“They have not responded to their invitation”, the union representatives assured that “it seems that formations such as the PNV They prefer to make public statements and reject any frameworks for dialogue that are proposed.”
Minimal services
The minimum services planned by the Basque government for the public sector strike called this Wednesday provide that First concern work is done as on Saturday, the doors are open in education schools and there is a director and a teacher, and in the transport that 30% of the services circulate.
The minimum service order, signed by Vice President Idoia Mendia, regulates what must remain in force on Wednesday.
Urkullu is committed to improving services and conditions
The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, assures that he must try to improve public services and the working conditions of his employees ‘every day’, but warns that resources are “limited” and institutions must arrange it for all citizens. Moreover, he warns against this “It is untenable” to make all services publicAlso, not all the money can be spent on paying civil servants’ salaries.
ELA accuses Urkullu of being “disconnected from reality”
ELA general secretary Mitxel Lakuntza has accused the lehendakari of being “detached from the reality of the country” and “reinforcing the reactionary discourse of the employers”.
Moreover, he assured that workers who “do not mobilize will not succeed in improving their working conditions”. In the same way, and with regard to the strikes in the public sector, he has said that the majority of those who mention these strikes demand “that what is invested in public services is equated with regard to Europe”, and “that here is decided on the conditions of government employees” .
Zupiria: ‘There is an interest in making people think this is chaos’
The spokesperson of the Basque government, Bingen Zupiria, does not hesitate to point out that the various calls for strikes in Euskadi electoral mobilizationsand believes that “there is a concrete and very certain interest among some organizations in a permanent social mobilization”, since, as he has warned, calls are coming in from “now until May”. “They want people to think this is chaos,” he said, something he denied.
Source: EITB
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