#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) cnt-sindikatua: Trade unions call for a mobilization for December 1 in favor of pensions and decent working and living conditions (ca) [machine translation]

 Joint statement from LAB, ELA, STEILAS, ESK, ETXALDE, HIRU, CGT and CNT on the

occasion of yesterday's appearance: ---- Different organizations have agreed on a
series of demands and initiate a dynamic of joint mobilization to achieve them.
We share the importance of the moment. European funds are turning into a sword of
Damocles, something that is unacceptable. From the beginning it was clear that in
exchange for them, social adjustment measures and austerity budget policies would
be required. Between now and the end of the year they intend to make decisions
that will determine our future living and working conditions. The approval of the
labor reform and the pension reform are conditions without which the new men in
black will not give the green light to the second tranche of transfers from the
Funds to the Spanish State.

The pension reform bill cuts early retirements and, far from guaranteeing minimum
pensions of 1,080 euros or ending the gender gap, what little is known points to
measures that will not repeal the cuts imposed years ago nor will they strengthen
the public pension system. The content of the labor reform is an even greater
unknown, but nothing indicates that our right to freely establish our agreements
in Euskal Herria will be guaranteed or to repeal the previous reforms in key
aspects such as the ease of firing. We want to condition these reforms, and
mobilization is the way we are going to go for it.

For their part, the institutions of Hego Euskal Herria do not even want to hear
about changing the model in essential issues, such as health, education or the
public care system, or in tackling an urgent tax reform that significantly
increases the taxes to be paid on business and capital income, especially on
company profits and on wealth and large fortunes. Confebask and CEN are the ones
who set these policies.

The continuity of Rácan budgetary policies, the commitment to the privatization
of public services and social benefits that are even intended to be cut (as is
the case with the proposal to reform the RGI in the Basque Country), the absence
of measures to protect a local commerce in crisis, show the refusal to clean up
the lessons of the 2008 crisis and what has happened with the coronavirus
pandemic. Likewise, the management of the health crisis has made clear the
fragility of the autonomous system: the State has the power to impose its
criteria when it deems appropriate.

As we have indicated, our bet is mobilization. The trade union organizations that
are promoting this call consider it necessary to come together, as we have done
in supporting the November 13 mobilizations called by the Euskal Herria
Pensioners' Movement.

We have also been marking the reference of a possible general strike, on which we
have been speaking individually. Today we go out to say that in this context we
see it necessary to convene a day of mobilizations on December 1. That day we
will go out into the streets, both in the morning in the four capitals of Hego
Euskal Herria and in the afternoon in the different regions, to defend our
demands under the slogan "Lan, pentsio eta bizi baldintza duinen alde. Lan eta
pentsio erreformei ez. Sovereignty for a dignified life.

We call on all social organizations to join this call, and to actively
collaborate so that the mobilization on December 1 is as broad and important as
possible.

http://www.cnt-sindikatua.org/es/noticias/sindicatos-llamamos-a-la-movilizacion-para-el-1-de-diciembre-en-favor-de-unas-pensiones-y-unas-condiciones-laborales-y-de-vida-dignas
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