MADRID, 31 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The secretary general of the CCOO, Unai Sordo, has indicated this Tuesday that “it is time to mobilize” to demand that the Government act in the face of “a salary problem” that will affect the “economic health of the country if there is no distribution of income through of wages”.
Before participating in a conference on trade unionism and institutional participation in Congress, Sordo insisted that in the face of underlying inflation close to 5%, the proposal of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) to raise wages by 3.5% without salary revision clause “it is very lame”.
“Right now, the business organizations have decided that the increase in costs, energy and raw materials are paid only by the popular classes and the working class. And how do they do it? Well, by trying to block collective bargaining on the one hand and impacting the increase in energy costs to consumer prices”, has specified the general secretary of CCOO.
Sordo has advanced that both his union and the UGT will meet in the coming weeks with those in charge of negotiating collective agreements in the companies to ensure “firm positions” that manage to introduce “review clauses or salary increases that are important enough to guarantee that salaries They will go up this year and the next two”.
The unions promise to tighten collective bargaining to achieve their goals and anticipate mobilizations and greater conflict. At the same time, the representatives of the workers have asked the Government to “take action on the matter” and resort to tax and income policy and social benefits to balance the situation.
“The government has to be more belligerent and ambitious in policies to contain inflation and contain the consequences of inflation for people with fewer resources,” said Sordo.
To do this, CCOO has once again insisted on containing gas prices and developing an income and fiscal policy. The union advocates the setting of a corporate tax of 15%, “as a minimum effective tax paid by large companies” to enable with this collection an income for 9.5 million people who do not reach 1,000 euros.
During his speech at the Congress, Sordo recognized that the unions must “face an increasingly complex action”, which coincides with moments in which these organizations have gone through “important internal renewal processes”.
In addition, Sordo has underlined “the provision that the Constituent Assembly made” of the unions, although he has indicated that Spain “would require some rule that would guarantee the participation of union organizations.”
For her part, the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, highlighted the contribution of the unions to “democratic improvement in Spain”.
“The relationship between the trade union world and Parliament reaches its maximum expression in the framework of the legislative process”, Batet commented.