Euskaraz irakurri: Araban, Bizkaian eta Gipuzkoan gutxieneko soldata 1,400 eurora igotzea aldarrikatu du EH Bilduk

EH Bildu has presented a motion today with which it claims to establish a minimum wage of 1400 euros in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa. In turn, he criticizes the “lack of leadership” of the Basque Government in this matter, which “is a matter of political will.”

In a press conference held in the Chamber of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the parliamentarian of EH Bildu Arkaitz Rodríguez has presented the motion that the coalition is going to bring to debate this Thursday in the plenary session of the Basque Parliament, aimed at ensuring that “the minimum wage guarantees the opportunity to live with dignity in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa”.

As he explained, EH Bildu proposes “establishing a minimum interprofessional salary here that adapts and responds to the socioeconomic reality here” and “in accordance with the recommendations of the European Social Charter”, so it must be “a minimum salary that reaches the height of the 60% of average salarywhich in this case, is around 1400 euros”.

With this objective, EH Bildu proposes “two alternative but mutually complementary paths”. As he explained, they want to “demand the transfer of competence in passive employment policies” and also proposes “to promote an interprofessional agreement in which employers and unions, via collective bargaining, can establish a minimum wage of the characteristics of the one proposed by EH Bildu.

The parliamentarian recalled that the Spanish Government has recently decided to raise the interprofessional minimum wage in the State as a whole, placing it at 1,080 euros, which he described as “good news”, but believes that “in the case of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, falls really short”. “Here the average salary is 20% higher than in the Spanish State, among other things, because the cost of living is also more or less twenty percent higher. Therefore, here that minimum salary of 1080 euros that has been set the Spanish Government for the State as a whole, barely reaches 50% of the average salary”, he pointed out.

Arkaitz Rodríguez believes that “there is a way, the possibility” to be able to “establish the minimum wage that we need here” and considers that “it is a matter of political will.” “We think that the Government has a lot to say and that it must play a proactive, leadership role, asking the parties to reach an agreement of these characteristics,” he insisted. “This government can do a lot to promote an interprofessional agreement of these characteristics; an interprofessional agreement that sets a minimum wage that reaches 60% of the average wage in this part of the country, as recommended by the European Social Charter”, has reiterated.

Source: Eitb

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