Basque pensioners call to protest this Saturday against the “Escrivá law” and the “cuts”

The Movement of Pensioners of Euskal Herria will demonstrate this Saturday, November 13, in the four capitals of Hegoalde to say “no to the bill Escrivá“, oppose the” cuts and privatization “and demand public pensions “worthy, fair and sufficient”.

The mobilizations have the support of the Charter of Social Rights of the Basque Country and they are open to “everyone who wants to come”.

Specifically, demonstrations have been organized in Bilbao at 5:30 in the afternoon from Plaza Moyua and also at 12 noon from Artium in Vitoria-Gasteiz, from Alderdi Eder in Donostia-San Sebastián, from Plaza Baluarte in Pamplona / Iruñea and from the Untzaga square in Eibar. In this way, Basque pensioners join a day with mobilizations in different parts of the Spanish State.

With the slogan ‘No to the Escrivá bill. No to cuts and privatization ‘, Basque pensioners will raise their “usual” demands such as a minimum pension of 1,800 euros or a minimum wage of 1,200 euros, as well as “quality work, health and care”.

To these, others will be added such as the complaint of “the revaluation that Mr. Escrivá wants to bring us”, they have explained from the Movement of Pensioners of Bizkaia, which this Monday has held its weekly concentration before the Bilbao City Council to claim public pensions ” dignified, just and sufficient “.

“Every year pensions have less purchasing power”

The group denounces that “the most damaging parts” of the pension reforms of 2011 and 2013 and the labor reforms of 2010 and 2012, which “cut pensions and reduce salaries and social contributions, have not yet been repealed.”

“They are changing their name, such as the sustainability factor, to others and every year pensions have less purchasing power … The only thing that maintains the bill presented by the Government is the pension reforms, we refuse in resounding “, criticized one of the spokespersons, Andrea Nail.

They also demand that the ‘Sustainability Factor’ must be eliminated “without being replaced by any other reducing coefficient” such as the Intergenerational Equity Mechanism, that retirement “must return to 65 years to create employment, alleviate poverty and the gender gap” and that the coefficients be eliminated reducers of early retirement with 40 years of contributions “.

Establish “effective measures” to end gender gap in salaries and pensions, that the purchasing power of pensions is guaranteed through annual reviews that “collect at least the increase in the cost of living” and, if necessary, guarantee the payment of public pensions through the General State Budgets are other of his proposals.