demand the Government "audacity" to repeal the labor reform

demand the Government "audacity" to repeal the labor reform

CC OO and UGT begin today a process of mobilization in which they ask «to go from words to deeds»

  Not fulfilling commitments has a price. This is the message that CC OO and UGT today sent to two addressees: the Government, on the one hand, that does not take action to implement the agreements adopted at the table of social dialogue, mainly as regards the repeal of the most harmful aspects of the labor reform, and employers, which does not demonstrate its willingness to apply the IV Agreement for the Government and Collective Bargaining (AENC) signed last June for the period 2018-2020.

  Faced with this inaction of the Executive and businessmen, the two main unions of the country gathered in an act of protest held at the Caja Mágica in Madrid to more than 10,000 delegates from all over Spain under the slogan 'More facts, less words, now!' , in what they consider the beginning of a process of growing mobilization that will culminate in the demonstration on March 8, International Women's Day.

«It is time to move from saying to doing,» he warned in a meeting with the media before the start of the event Pepe Álvarez, general secretary of UGT, who explained that the main objective of this union meeting is «to place those elements on the public agenda that worry us ", among which are the labor reform, the pension and compensation.

For his part, the leader of CC OO, Unai Sordo, recalled that "it has been four years since we left the crisis", so he asked the current government "audacity" to carry forward the substantial modification of the labor reform and pensions approved by the PP. "We ask for audacity so that you process it and do it, because we believe that it is possible to obtain majorities in Parliament," he argued.

A "mature enough" agreement

Both leaders stressed that "we have been negotiating for months" and there is already an agreement "mature enough", which highlighted four measures: return the prevalence to the sectoral agreement on the company, recover the ultraactivity of the agreements, implement a system of time registration of the day and repeal the latest pension reform.

These changes are "very advanced," the unions said - even CC OO announced at the end of December a principle of agreement to repeal part of the labor reform - which admitted that "in the portfolio there are other changes related to dismissal." In turn, they urged the opposition to support these changes or "portray themselves" because "if they oppose good changes for the people, they have a problem with the people".

But UGT and CC OO also had a message for business organizations, which demanded that they comply with the agreed increases of up to 3% and establish a minimum wage per agreement of 1,000 euros. "We warn the employers' organizations that if the companies do not comply with the rise in wages, especially in the lower ones, which have a clear gender and age bias, we will stress the negotiation of collective agreements," Sordo warned.