The Euskal Herria movement of retirees is on track to demand decent and fair pensions. Today they have left Alderdi Eder, in San Sebastián, where they will arrive on Saturday 25 and the mobilization will end with a national demonstration.
Euskaraz irakurri: 13 egun eta 700 km bizikletaz, 1,080 euroko gutxieneko pentsioaren alde
The Euskal Herria movement for retirees started this Monday in San Sebastián with a bicycle march that took place during 13 days and further 700 kilometerswill visit different municipalities and provinces in the Basque geography to keep demanding “decent, fair and adequate” public pensions
The protest march participants departed from Alderdi Eder, in the Gipuzkoan capital, the city where the next Saturday 25 immediately national rally, and they have called on citizens to join them in demanding “rights for all.”
The pensioners’ movement has emphasized that their fight is not only for their own rights, “but also for the rights of future retirees.”
The spokesmen of the movement have once again demanded that the Basque and Navarrese governments 2023 budgets the replenishment to 1080 eurosas long as the state government sets the minimum pension”.
On the other hand, the LAB union, through a statement, has expressed its support for the Euskal Herria Pensioners’ Movement’s bicycle march and has joined the demands for “the defense of public services, the distribution of care and a minimum pension of 1080 euros “.
LAB has appreciated that “over the years retirees have shown the strength and dedication that the movement has” and recalled that “thousands fill city squares every Monday and has promoted endless mobilizations, both own and contributing to many other battles.” “.
“The struggle for decent pensions is the struggle of all workers. The reforms carried out from Madrid are causing the dismantling of the public system and the Basque and Navarrese governments have shown that they do not have the political will to find a solution meet the demands that are permanently present in the street,” he stated.
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Source: EITB
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