Deaf: “If the right to veto is granted to the employer, there will be no agreement with CC. OO.”

The secretary general of CC. OO., Unai Sordo, has assured, regarding the negotiation of the labor reform, that the Spanish Government cannot “grant right to veto the employer, because if not, the CEOE is going to be empowered, and there will be no agreement “with the unions. Sordo has admitted, however, that an agreement with the employer would be desirable.”

In an interview with the “Boulevard” program of Radio Euskadi, the recently re-elected general secretary of the union has hoped that the “coordination” disagreements within the Government of Spain can be overcome, although he has warned that if they raise “modify agreements that we already had very advanced they are going to have a serious problem with CC. OO.“According to Sordo, it is” evident “that the labor reform is negotiated with the Ministry of Labor (led by Yolanda Díaz), who is “competent in this matter”.

In this sense, it has asked the two parties that make up the Spanish Government to do not “frivolous”, since “if someone questions the commitments made, the situation would become very complicated.”

Furthermore, Sordo has denied that Europe is questioning “nothing that is being negotiated at the social dialogue table.” On the contrary, he added, “what the European Union has said to Spain is that it has to reduce the temporality.”

Finally, and questioned by the decree that cuts benefits to electricity companies In an attempt to contain the rise in the price of electricity, the secretary general of CC. OO. He has argued that “jobs will not be destroyed”, because these companies “have huge margins” due to the “nonsense” implied by the energy price allocation system (which establishes the price based on the most expensive). However, he has argued that the Spanish government should take “more structural measures”, especially aimed at boosting renewables.