COO and UGT call for taking to the streets to demand new measures after the omnibus decree falls through

CCOO and UGT have called for demonstrations on Sunday, February 2 throughout Spain to demand a new package of measures to reactivate those included in the declining omnibus decree after the 'no' of Junts, Popular Party (PP) and Vox to the same in the Congress of Deputies and to denounce the cancellation of all social protection measures and Social Security financing.

In a statement, both unions have expressed their absolute rejection of this exercise of “political opportunism” which, in your opinion, will have “extremely high costs” on the backs of the citizens.

“Millions of people are affected. Pensioners who would not see their contributory and non-contributory pensions, as well as minimum pensions, increased; recipients of the SMI and the IMV; users of public transport; vulnerable people at risk of eviction or who will see their aid to pay for basic supplies disappear”, both unions have lamented.

For CCOO and UGT, the 'no' of these three political parties means “an unprecedented aggression” to the social majority, and especially to vulnerable people, the working class and the popular classes in general.

For this reason, they will take to the streets to ask for approval from the Government, through the figure of the Royal decree law, of a new package of measures and its subsequent validation by Congress, avoiding taking the population with the greatest needs as “hostage to this game of opportunism”, where necessary measures are voted against, many of which have already been previously agreed upon, “even with the favorable vote of those who have now caused this cancellation”.

Similarly, CCOO and UGT have asked citizens to participate massively in these mobilizations and invite all social, union and political organizations that share these demands to join the mobilization process.

“Yes to the revaluation of public pensions, contributory and non-contributory. Yes to the social shield. Yes to aid for the use of public transport; Yes to resources for people affected by the DANA", they conclude.