LAB considers the rise in social security contributions insufficient although they are going “in the right direction”

The Secretary General of LAB, Garbiñe Aranburu, has considered this Tuesday that the proposal of the Government of Spain to raise social contributions is an “insufficient” measure to guarantee decent public pensions, although “it may go in the right direction.”

Aranburu, together with the secretary of Labor Union Action and Collective Bargaining of LAB, Xabier Ugartemendia, has presented, at a press conference in Bilbao, the position of the national union in relation to open debates at the state level on labor reform and the labor system. pensions.

Given the “important decisions” that are expected in the coming weeks in these matters and the lack of representation of LAB in these debates, The Abertzale union tries to “influence” them and make their “voice” be heard by sending two letters to the PSOE we can, posing a series of requirements.

One of them is that decent public pensions are guaranteed by increasing income through an improvement in wages and a greater increase in the SMI -Minimum Interprofessional Salary-, as well as an increase in social contributions, eliminating the limits on the listing and taxing companies more.

In this regard, it has claimed that if the proposed measures are not sufficient, action is taken through budgets and taxation to ensure adequate income to the pension system.

In the aforementioned letter, LAB also demands that PSOE and Podemos “fulfill the promise to repeal the labor reform” and asks them not to give in to the “blackmail” of the CEOE: “Repeal and agree with the employer does not house” and “seek the agreement with the employer is to give him the right of veto,” said Aranburu.

In the letter, the union also demands that “the right to decide” be respected in the Basque Country, “without any interference”, the issues that affect Basque workers.

The head of LAB has explained that the union is also going to send letters to the PNV and EH Bildu demanding that they put their votes “at the service of the workers of Euskal Herria”.

The union indicates to the PNV that the workers “do not need the High Speed ​​Train, but to repeal reforms” contrary to their interests and demands that EH Bildu defend “the agreement to repeal the labor reform,” as explained.

In addition, the Abertzale central will continue with its dynamics of mobilizations and on the 17th it will hold protests before the Basque and Navarrese employers to pressure and “make possible in Euskal Herria what is not possible in Madrid”.

Aranburu has once again defended that it is now “time” to call a general strike in Euskadi, without waiting for “what will come out of the social dialogue in the state framework.”