Unions and parties welcome the rise in prices, although with “uncertainty”

Following the announcement of the Spanish Government’s proposal to raise social contributions by 0.5 points for ten years, starting in 2023, to seek to balance the Social Security accounts in the medium and long term, the Secretary General of CCOO, Unai Sordo, has stated that the approach is “interesting“, although it generates” some uncertainties “.

According to Sordo, the proposal is open to negotiation and “it is not the final proposal, not even remotely”. Sordo agrees with the vision of the Spanish Government that it is necessary to act on income to face future spending on pensions.

For this reason, he has celebrated that this intergenerational equity mechanism “is very far” from the sustainability factor, which proposed a cut in future pensions to the extent that life expectancy was increased.

In addition, he believes that it is a price rise “very limited”, which will not have negative effects on employment and will have negative effects on economic stability, since it guarantees 15 million future pensioners that they will receive a pension from the public system.

However, the union leader considers that it will be necessary to adopt more measures related to the structure of income in addition to this increase in quotas, because it is “very limited” and only with it the future challenge will not be able to be faced of the higher spending on pensions.

Likewise, he recognizes that the proposal awakens him some “uncertainties“And it contains” some scheme “that he does not share and” that he does not see. “” But that’s what the negotiation is for, “he added.

The PSOE spokesman in the Congress of Deputies, Hector Gomez, for his part, has defended the proposal put forward by Minister Escrivá and has indicated that within the framework of social dialogue, “it is important to lay the foundations for sustainability and guarantee the future of pensions.”

“I think it is an effort that we can make together,” he pointed out, and together with unions and employers, “identify opportunities” to ensure their sustainability.

Gómez has recalled that for the moment it is just a proposal and that the final objective of the Spanish Government is to achieve a long-range and long-term agreement, since the measure will only be a success if it is consensual.

The PNV spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Aitor EstebanEsteban has said that, in principle, the proposal does not seem “bad” to them, and has pointed out that “we will have to see the whole of what we want to do”.

“That is what, unfortunately, we are not seeing because probe balloons are released to see how they fall between the political formations, the unions, etc. Here we have to see what the whole of the reform will be and that the Ministry (of Inclusion , Social Security and Migrations) will make it explicit, “he said.

“Therefore, it will be necessary to see the small print, but perhaps it is a measure that has to be adopted, but it is necessary to see how it is in the set of the rest of those that must be taken and of which the Ministry has not yet said anything” , it is finished.

The deputy spokesperson for United We Can in Congress, Sofia Castañón, has warned that any rise in contributions aimed at recovering the Social Security Reserve Fund, popularly known as ‘pension money box’, cannot be at the expense of the purchasing power of the working classes. Thus, he has stated that his parliamentary group is unaware of the announced measure, but has made it clear that it cannot affect all citizens.

For this reason, the deputy of the purple training has conjectured that, for this increase in contributions, one should be talking about “raising wages” and improving the situation of the self-employed and SMEs.

“If we are going to look through that piggy bank of pensions that for a long time a spurious intervention was made by the PP Government until leaving them as it is now, it cannot be at the cost of effort, health or purchasing power of the working class “, has settled Castañón.

The spokesperson for Vox in Congress, Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros, has defended a reduction in contributions to facilitate job creation and thus improve the income of the public pension system, and not raise them as proposed by Minister José Luis Escrivá.

In this sense, he has criticized Escrivá going “the exact opposite way to which he should go”, taking into account the high unemployment rate, especially among young people. For this reason, he has wielded the need to promote measures that facilitate the increase in jobs and, therefore, he considers that “instead of making it more expensive, it should still be made cheaper.”