Sánchez opens himself to bettering the illustration and recognition of unions and employers | Economy | EUROtoday

At Pedro Sánchez’s assembly with UGT this Tuesday, on the forty fourth Confederal Congress of the union, there have been primarily expressions of gratitude, hugs and smiles, but additionally some complaints. The basic secretary of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, the one candidate presenting on this congress and who will presumably be re-elected this Wednesday for a 3rd time period, has requested the president of the Government to advertise an settlement for the State to reward social brokers — unions and employers—for the work they do representing staff and employers. Minutes later, in his speech, Sánchez picked up the gauntlet, and acknowledged that he intends to approve a legislation on institutional participation on this legislature “that recognizes the work of social agents”, with out specifying whether or not will probably be about growing financing or simply to extend its weight in social dialogue.

Álvarez already demanded on Monday that public financing be improved for social brokers, each unions and firms, who’re those who handle labor relations and agree on agreements in collective bargaining, in addition to equality plans. “We live in a country where the State demands more and more jobs from the unions, and only the members pay for it with their dues,” Álvarez stated this Tuesday. In 2023, in accordance with the National Publicity System for Subsidies and Public Aid, UGT obtained 5.8 million euros in transfers for its institutional illustration, however Álvarez has careworn that the work of social brokers isn’t sufficiently acknowledged, and has certified it as a “debt” that Spain has with unionism because the transition. Sánchez, for his half, has restricted himself to accepting the dedication to approve a legislation of institutional participation, however has not given extra particulars in his speech.

The President of the Government was taking part in at house this Tuesday, with a UGT congress attended by some 3,000 individuals, 800 of them union delegates who between Monday and Wednesday are debating the proposals and can vote for Álvarez’s re-election. “There have been four years of success, and without this Government it would not have been possible. President, you comply with the workers of this country, you are a president of your word, trustworthy,” stated the overall secretary of UGT in his welcome. Sánchez initially needed to take part within the first day of the congress like the opposite political authorities – on Monday, the second vice chairman of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez-Feijóo, amongst others, intervened. , however he modified the agenda and ended up collaborating solely this Tuesday, a day that in precept needed to be devoted solely to inner problems with the union. At the congress of a union that shares its founding second with the PSOE, the similarity with a socialist rally was within the air, and has been confirmed with the images that the attendees have taken with Sánchez, which have delayed the beginning for a couple of minutes. of his intervention.

In his speech, Sánchez reviewed all of the financial and social measures that the coalition authorities has promoted, and has vindicated them towards “a right that has no program, only hoaxes and lies.” The president has in contrast the speedy restoration of GDP and employment in Spain after the pandemic, underneath his administration, with the lengthy years of cuts that adopted the 2008 monetary disaster, underneath PP governments: “The neoliberal response took more than 10 years to recover GDP and employment, while the progressive response managed to recover it in just two years. Today we have one of the best unemployment levels in the last three decades and we have 21 million employed people,” he expressed.

The president has known as for labor reform, the rise within the interprofessional minimal wage, the revaluation of pensions and the power transition. “We have achieved all this, and it is fair to thank the unions, who helped us and convinced us,” he stated. He has additionally outlined the challenges that lie forward within the subsequent three years of the legislature — “and in those that come after,” he stated to make it clear that he desires to proceed main the PSOE within the 2027 elections —: apply the housing legislation, of which the lease cap has solely been carried out in Catalonia and construct extra public housing to go from the present 2% of the housing inventory to 9% of the European common; scale back the working day, for which it has requested the employers to return to the negotiating desk, and abolish prostitution, amongst different measures. He has additionally acknowledged that “there can be no social justice without fiscal justice.” “That will always lead me to continue demanding a tax on banks, energy companies, and large fortunes,” he added.

Sánchez has additionally charged towards the PP for the administration of the dana in Valencia, and has accused the correct of denying, by motion or omission, the scientific proof of the local weather emergency. “The nice lesson from Valencia is that there’s a extra critical hazard, which is denialist governments that by motion or omission deny the local weather emergency. When the lights go away, the Government will proceed with Valencia till they fully get well their normality,” said Sánchez, who has shown himself to be “proud” to be a member of the UGT and president of the coalition Government: “We are on the nice aspect of the historical past”.