MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has accused Vox this Wednesday of “hating” the CCOO and UGT unions because, as she has said, Santiago Abascal’s party “is hindered by democracy”.
In response to a question from the Vox deputy Inés María Cañizares during the government control session in the plenary session of Congress, Díaz has asked the Abascal formation to “respect” the unions, because they defend the general interest and because they represent , in the case of CCOO and UGT, almost two million workers.
On the contrary, Díaz has blamed Vox that the “bar” union that he has set up, called Solidarity and that is financed with public money, only represents 0.02% of the workers. “That really is nothing,” snapped the vice president, who has also accused Solidarity of “insulting and accusing the political opponents” of Vox “in each of the acts they do.”
Díaz has reproached Vox for “not understanding” that social agents are recognized in article 7 of the Spanish Constitution. “You are outside the Constitution. You have a problem with it. I would ask you to respect the unions in this country because they are defending the general interest and represent almost two million workers,” the vice president stressed.
For his part, Cañizares has urged Díaz to respond if he has been instigating union mobilizations against businessmen. “If he knows the meaning of the word instigate, the answer is no,” the vice president replied.
The deputy of Vox has denounced that “instead of looking for solutions that jointly benefit workers and companies”, such as lowering taxes or social contributions, the Government prefers not to harm the collection “to finance its mammoth Government of 22 ministries or to continue watering public subsidies to its afflicted unions, to which this year it has given 17 million euros”.
Cañizares has stressed that the independent unions, “those who do not dance the water to the Government”, are asking the Executive to act to “really” lower the electricity bill for SMEs and the self-employed, lower their taxes and adopt a “true labor reform” “, which ensures “indefinite contracts in time, not in name”.
“You know a lot about protesting, but about hiring, only with the money of others,” said the Vox deputy, who has warned Díaz that 40% of small businesses registered losses at the end of the second quarter, 90,000 they are “in a situation of technical bankruptcy” and 350,000 are at risk of disappearing.
