Public sector federations mobilise against regional government attacks

Spain

While the national government has announced another year of pay freezes across the public sector, regional governments are planning their own range of cuts to pay and conditions and services. Public sector unions are planning a series of demonstrations and strikes in response to these attacks. In Valencia trade unions are planning legal action as well as demonstrations against the regional government’s planned savings of more than €1 billion. A series of meetings and mobilisations began on 13 January and will continue with three demonstrations planned for 26 January and a region-wide protest to follow in February. In the Basque region trade unions have tried to negotiate but the government is insistent on imposing a range of measures that will reduce rights to partial and early retirement. Unions there will demonstrate on 24 January. In Castilla –La Mancha unions have united in a campaign agains the cuts that will include local mobilisations around the time of the budget vote, a demonstration in Toledo on 11 February and a strike on 29 February. However, job cuts in the regional government’s Geacam environmental services company, have lead unions there to organise strike action on 25 January. They are concerned that the job cuts are a first step towards possible privatisation of the company.
Read more on Valencia at > FSC-CCOO (ES)
And more on the Basque at > FSC-CCOO (ES)
And on Castilla-La Mancha at > FSC-CCOO (ES)
And on Geacam at > FSC-CCOO (ES)

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