The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has assured that “the main problem of Spain is not immigration”, but the Popular Party. “If Feijóo today says that the main problem is immigration, I say that we are already immediately regularizing the 500,000 migrants in our country,” he said.
This has been stated during the round table 'Labor rights against the extreme right' organized within the framework of the annual party of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), which is celebrated this weekend in the Madrid town of Rivas and in which the leaders of UGT and CCOO have also participated.
“A migrant person in our country contributes much more than the 137 deputies and deputies of the PP who always vote against what Spain advances in recent years,” said the vice president.
In this sense, he stressed that the PP “is working for Vox” and that “it is in the hands of Ayuso, it is being radicalized and is hitting the working class and social majorities.”
For his part, UGT general, Pepe Álvarez, has assured that in immigration the administration has to be “clear and transparent.”
“They lie when they say that migrants are carrying the subsidies. It is really false, lie. They lie when they say that the majority of the minimum vital income is being taken. They lie, and they know that they lie. They propose measures that are already there, that they do not need to propose them,” he added.
October 15 unemployment by Gaza
In this same debate, both Álvarez and the Secretary General of CCOO, Unai Sordo, have insisted on carrying out the work strike of two hours that both trade union organizations have summoned for the next day October 15 to show their support for Palestine.
The intention is “to help Spain continue to be a country in which the terrorism is clearly rejected in the Middle East, which is taking place in Gaza,” as Álvarez explained.
For its part, Sordo has assured that “it is so important to place the focus” in Gaza for “humanitarian” reasons and “solidarity with the Palestinian people”, but also because “it is the most beast expression of this process of attack on democratic systems.”
With them, the general secretary of the PCE, Enrique Santiago. “We are going to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and cry for the end of genocide, but there are other serious crimes, other extermination attempts that are being committed against other peoples,” he added.
They ask that the reduction of day be processed again
UGT has demanded that the Government re -process the “Law of 37 and a half,” as the Secretary General of the Union, Pepe Álvarez, said.
In this regard, he explained that what would have been approved in Congress was not the immediate implementation of the reduction of the working day, but “open the debate.” “They do not want any debate because they know that this is a debate they have lost,” he said.
The second vice president, on the other hand, has assured that the reduction of the workday already “is won on the street” and that it will “win in Parliament.”
Pensions are “perfectly viable”
The general secretary of CCOO, Unai Sordo, has assured that the pension system “is perfectly viable” in Spain. Thus, he explained that it is an element of “intergenerational solidarity” and that who “wants to load” is because he wants to “gradually privatize the system.”
With him, Álvarez has agreed, who added that it is “nonsense” to say that young people's salaries are low because pensions are high. In this sense, he assured that “never in history down pensions has represented anything for young people.”
“The point is that we want us to distribute, among young people and pensioners, the smallest part of the benefits that are generated. Because, in reality, the problem is with the great capitals,” he said.