strike British railwaysinside London Underground and busesinside postal servicenow too country’s main cargo port and even as of September, public defenders. Faced with growing economic problems, declining purchasing power and the scenario of the threat of an even worse downturn, the UK has faced weeks of worker discontent in the form of a back-to-back mobilization of workers. And the last one An eight-day stop at the port of Felixstowe This situation, which started last Sunday, has started to worry those who have to trade there. “We have a delicate economic situation in the UK that will definitely affect us,” he predicts. Joan TristanyCEO United States of America.
This association internationalized industrial companies recognizes that mobilizations do not have a direct effect on national imports or exports, but that what they fear is an indirect effect in the short or medium term.
Tristany said: “The United Kingdom is one of the Western countries where GDP has contracted the most (-11%) due to the covid-19 crisis and one of the countries that took the longest to recover.” “If we add the worrying inflation data (10.5%) to this situation, pauses in the transport sector, and we add our own stops (doesn’t help boost the economy), the UK is in a delicate economic situation that will definitely affect us,” the expert analyzes. First of all, he says, because although it is not part of the European Union, “it remains an important region within the European economy. does.”
According to the x-ray film released monthly Ministry of Industry, Trade and TourismThe UK was Spain’s fifth largest export market this year. France, Germany, Portugal and Italy. In addition, sales to the country increased by 16.5% compared to last year, more than, for example, Germany.
In any case, and while Amec is concerned about the contagion effect and mobilizations taking place in other European countries, the party does not exclude possible opportunities. “There’s a sense of calm as it’s not affecting us at the moment and it may even benefit us that some of the UK’s trading partners are not able to trade with them and instead do with us,” Tristany said.
Labor conflict in Spain
The thing is that the unions are already expecting widespread mobilizations here as well. On the same Tuesday, leaders CCOO and UGT in Catalonia, Xavier Pacheco Y camil ross, respectively, in an interview with ‘Radio Catalunya’, assured that they predicted an autumn filled with labor conflicts. As reported by ‘Europa Press’, both spokespersons were pessimistic about it. Price increase in the country and little chance of reaching an agreement raise the minimum inter-professional wage Due to differences between social representatives in Spain (according to them and employers).
“Conflict has been secured company by company, sector by sector, and also by general: so far, mobilizations have been scattered. barcelona metal or in petrochemical zonebut now it will be more organized”, coincidentally they promised to call the citizens to take to the streets, because the workers will not succumb to losing their purchasing power again as in the great crisis.