“For governments, taking care of people, putting people at the center, has become a mere slogan. Neither debates nor measures are encouraged to promote the necessary changes,” the secretary general, Garbiñe Aranburu, denounced.
Euskaraz irakurri: “Bukatu dira aitzakiak eta justifikazioak. Errotik egindako aldaketak behar ditugu” aldarrikatu du LABek
“Altxa! Egin dezagun possible. For the distribution of care, employment and wealth” has been the motto chosen by the union LAB to focus the demands of this First of May, Day of working people. “For governments, caring for people, putting people at the center, has become a mere slogan. Neither debates nor measures are encouraged to promote the necessary changes” the Secretary General denounced, Garbiñe Aranburuin his speech after the main demonstration, held this morning in Bilbao.
“The excuses and justifications are over. We need radical changes” Aranburu claimed before the members and sympathizers who have walked the central streets of the capital starting at 11:00 am from Plaza Zabalburu.
In addition to Bilbao, the nationalist central has manifested itself in Donostia-San Sebastián, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Pamplona, Baiona, Maule, Estella-Lizarra, Tudela, Eibar, Beasain and many other towns throughout Euskal Herria.
LAB demonstration in Donostia-San Sebastián. Photo: @LABsindikatua
Aranburu has defended the labor and social equitythe dignity of care and some policies made from Euskal Herria without following the government of Pedro Sánchez. The general secretary of LAB has highlighted that “we need a social debate on redistribution, preventing the consequences from falling again on the backs of the workers”.
In this sense, he has announced that LAB “will not accept or participate in a rent agreement that supposes accepting the loss of purchasing power of the workers”, as the Government of Sánchez has proposed.
The nationalist union is clear that this situation is not a consequence “neither of the pandemic nor of the war in Ukraine”, but is only attributable to capitalism after “decades of neoliberal policies”. Aranburu has advocated working from its own labor code and its own social security law.
He also highlighted that the public coffers could collect 500 million euros more if tax changes were made to companies.
Garbiñe Aranburu, today in Bilbao. Photo: @LABsindikatua
LAB asks Chivite “to correct the historical mistake made with the Improvement of the Jurisdiction”
In the same vein, the spokesperson for LAB in Navarra, Imanol Karrera, has said that “in the face of this unsustainable situation” it is necessary to distribute and dignify care work and “for this it is essential to reduce the working day”. “It is important that we distribute employment but also that care work be recognized”, of which “only women are in charge” and that “do not have economic and political recognition”, she has stated.
He has also defended the improvement of public services and “fair tax reform”.
In this sense, Karrera has directly questioned the president of the Regional Government, María Chivite, to ask her for “her own policies” for Navarra since “limiting oneself to the measures of Madrid harms the citizens of Navarra”.
He has also denounced that he does 40 years was approved Improvement of the Forum, a proposal “totally excluding because it left out 33% of Navarrese citizens”. For this reason, he considered that “it is time to correct that historical error and once again give the voice and the vote to the citizens of Navarra so that they can decide what political status Navarra wants” and “what is the economic and social model that wants” to “make possible here all the changes that are impossible in Madrid”.
Imanol Karrera, from LAB, before the media. Photo: @LABsindikatua
Source: Eitb
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