ELA mobilizes to ask PNV, EH Bildu and Podemos to prevent a cut in pensions

Thousands of people have mobilized this Sunday summoned by ELA in the four capitals of Hego Euskal Herria to demand that PNV, EH Bildu and Podemos prevent, with their votes in Congress, a cut in pensions and give your support to the repeal of the labor reform.

Under the slogan ‘No to pension cuts; repeal the labor reform. Do not sell us to Madrid ‘, the union central has also warned that the European funds “They are a trap,” and he has not ruled out the possibility of calling a general strike to “condition the reforms.”

In Bilbao, the mobilization, which was attended by the general secretary of ELA, Mitxel lakuntza, started after 11:30 am from the Town Hall square with the participation of workers from Tubacex and Novaltia, among others.

Regarding the mobilization of Donostia-San Sebastián, the ELA protest has started from the Boulevard, while in the capital of Alava, and after leaving from the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, the meeting has concluded in the Plaza Machete with the participation of representatives of the industry and services sector, among others.

Lakuntza has warned that he has been “bearing the harsh consequences of the latest pension and labor reforms” for a decade, and has influenced the fact that European funds they are not “a gift, but a trap” being conditioned.

“In the previous crisis, public money went to the banks, now they want it to go to large companies in exchange for not repealing the labor reform and worsening pensions. That is Pedro Sánchez’s deal with the European Union” , has denounced.

Likewise, he has been critical of the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, who, in the opinion of ELA, raises “retire later or collect less pension. “” They want to do it incorporating what they have called ‘intergenerational equity mechanism’ so that future governments can do what they want with pensions, “he has described.

On the other hand, he has insisted on the need to repeal the labor reform to guarantee that the agreements that are applied “in Euskal Herria are those that are signed here and that the state of misery are not imposed” and so that the ERE are not “an open bar for companies with benefits to fire with impunity”.

“Unfortunately, these decisions are still made in Madrid, but they can be conditioned by the Basque Country. Sánchez’s government does not have a majority and needs the votes of the Basque parties. That is why we went out to the streets, to demand that PNV, EH Bildu and Elkarrekin We can commit themselves not to approve any pension cuts and to defend the repeal of the labor reform, “he insisted.