On Monday, May 1, International Workers’ Day, workers took to the streets in Elche to defend workers’ rights, demand fair wages, decent pensions. stable and quality employment.
With the slogan ‘Increase wages, reduce prices, distribute aid’, hundreds of people wanted to join the demonstration in Elche, organized by the main unions UGT and CCOO, leaving Plaza de Barcelona at 11:00. Representatives of the Elche Socialist Party, together with the mayor and the candidate for re-election Carlos GonzalezWe have one more year to continue supporting this fight.
Carlos González emphasized: “We have the highest Social Security membership rate in Elche. Never had so many people worked at Elche, and on the other hand, lower unemployment rate of the last 15 years”
However, he pointed out that we should not be pro-victory “because we have to keep working as long as there is an unemployed person”.
HE re-election candidate showed that the labor market going through a great situation That means more than 87,000 people on Social Security and 20,000 unemployed, the rate has dropped significantly”. National MP was also present at the ceremony. Alejandro SolerHe explained: “Thanks to the fact that we have a PSOE government, extraordinary progress has been made, such as increasing the inter-professional minimum wage from 700 to 1,080 euros, ratifying labor reform that once again saves collective labor consensus and social dialogue.” Finally, he underlined the increase in pensions.