The UGT unions and Workers ‘Commissions have again taken to the streets today Saturday, May 1, International Workers’ Day, to demand that the Government comply with the social agenda, parked last year as a result of the covid-19.
The general secretary of the UGT in the Canary Islands, Manuel Navarro, has defended May Day as a “day of inflection” in the history of union demands on the islands and has celebrated being able to “recover” the street after a year of pandemic that forced to suspend the acts of Labor Day last year.
This was stated in statements to journalists before the start of the May Day demonstration in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a call that also takes place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and, in the form of a concentration, in Santa Cruz de La Palma and Arrecife, in Lanzarote.
Manuel Navarro highlighted being able to celebrate this call once again in the street because he considers that there are “vital” issues that unionism and citizens “must defend”, and added that it will also serve to honor and thank the work of all those people who have been “on the front line” during the pandemic, such as health workers, supermarket personnel, teachers, rural people, transporters, among others.
In the demonstration in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the general secretary of CCOO in the Canary Islands, Inocencio González, stressed that this May Day seeks to combine the union demands with the recognition of the people who, this last year, have carried out this country.
Inocencio González considers that from moral recognition and applause, we must move on to effective recognition, higher wages, job stability and the strengthening of public services, hence the importance of recovering the presence and mobilization in the street, he added.
For the Secretary General of CCOO in the Canary Islands, this May Day represents a “turning point” in which “it is time to recover the social agenda and combine a negotiation process with mobilization.”
Thus, under the motto ‘Now it is time to comply. A country in debt to its working class’, the acts called for this Saturday by the UGT and CCOO in the Canary Islands pursue the need to carry out the repeal of the labor reform, that of the 2013 pension system, as well as the revaluation of the minimum wage and the recovery of public services.
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