Madrid, May 6 (Eficom) .- CCOO and UGT unions have valued on Tuesday the record increase in social security affiliation and the decrease in unemployment recorded in April, although they have urged to continue implementing measures aimed at increasing wages and reducing the working day.
From CCOO, his secretary of studies, Carlos Gutiérrez, has highlighted the improvement of the occupation thanks to Holy Week, as well as its quality and stability, in addition to the reduction of unemployment and rotation.
However, he added that Spain “must aspire to full employment”, deepen the transformation of the productive model and implement the protection of the impacts of war conflicts or the tariff war initiated by the US administration of Donald Trump.
He has also placed to reduce the working day to 37.5 hours and to improve salaries “as a key levers that contribute to achieve these objectives.”
UGT has valued the increase in employment, although he added that “now it is time to distribute better time, wealth and work”, for which he asks that “the processing, discussion and debate of the bill for the reduction of the workday without salary decrease is hindered in Parliament.”
“In a context of increasing business margins, a more balanced distribution of wealth is necessary,” said UGT, while making it clear that citizens “claims an improvement of their living and working conditions” and “parliamentary groups cannot be maintained out of that collective demand.”
And he has warned that “those who oppose what working people are demanding, will end up paying the political and social price of that decision.”
For its part, since use, its general secretary, Joaquín Pérez, has warned that, despite the new indefinite contracts, “unemployment has decreased only in 67,000 people” and concludes that “the indefinite contract is no longer a guarantee of employment.”
He regretted that in the industry one in four contracts are temporary and that “the sector that should be the engine of the change of productive model is not creating employment, only substitutions.”
Also that tourism has not been – including Holy Week and the May bridge – the sector that has created more contracts. Effect
