Unai Sordo believes that “the labor mobilization will go ‘in crescendo'” in autumn and winter

The secretary general of CC OO, Unai Sordo, at a press conference. / e. p.

It distances the possibility of reaching the income pact promoted by the Government because “the salary agreement that is required is far away” before

E. P. Santiago de Compostela

Sunday, September 25, 2022, 8:25 p.m.

The general secretary of the CC.OO., Unai Sordo, believes that this will be an autumn and a winter in which “the labor mobilization will go ‘in crescendo'”. As he stated this Sunday, this context of inflation, “accompanied by a very insufficient rise in wages and a very irresponsible attitude on the part of the employers”, “it is not sustainable” that wages “continue to grow below 3%” .

“This is going to cause a process of growing mobilization in the negotiation of collective agreements,” insisted this union leader. In this sense, and regarding the income agreement that the Government is trying to promote, he admitted that today “it is not close” because “the salary agreement that is required is far away” before.

In this sense, in an interview on the SER chain, he argued that this future salary agreement would serve to “unlock collective bargaining not only for the year 2022, but for 2023 and 2024.” However, he insisted that said text should incorporate “the so-called wage review clauses” to “prevent the purchasing power of workers from continuing to decline in the coming years.”

Against tax cuts

On the other hand, Unai Sordo also referred to the decision to abolish or lower the wealth tax announced in recent days by several autonomous communities governed by the PP, such as the cases of Andalusia or Galicia. After calling the measure “nonsense”, he fully rejected that at a time when “there are millions of people who do not make ends meet, a policy of lowering taxes for the rich is proposed.”

“It is nonsense to enter a competition to lower taxes in the autonomous communities and it seems to me a terrible message for Europe,” criticized the leader of CC OO. In this sense, he pointed out that it seems “an unpatriotic message and an absolute disaster as a country’s approach.” In addition, he declared that Spain has a fiscal pressure of “70,000 million euros per year that are collected less than the European Union average.”