Pensions are not a bargaining chip
We must defeat the attack on current retirees and those who will be in the future.
In 2010-2011 Rodriguez Zapatero (PSOE) applied a brutal against reform by freezing pensions and lengthening the retirement age of 65 a 67 years. In 2013 Mariano Rajoy (PP) continued with adjustment, set aside the Index of Consumer Prices (IPC) as a reference to impose a new index of revaluation limiting the increases to 0,25%. There were those who trusted that with arrival to the power of "PSOE-UP progressive coalition" the situation of great people would qualitatively change. Nevertheless, no this turning out that way. At the sanitary level, sadly, almost half of the deaths from Covid-19 were registered in residences for seniors, without the State having taken the reins with protective measures enough. And the socio-economic situation of pensioners may worsen if the measures considered by the executive are imposed.
The Minister of Social Security, Jose Luis Escrivá, there was already raised in the Congress of Deputies, in february 2020, your intention to negotiate in the parliamentary commission of the Toledo Pact –whose recommendations continue to be questioned– reform of the pensions, in such a way that your application was ready for the 2021. Now has announced that it plans to present a reform bill in Congress Social Security, among whose measures is the elevation of the period of contribution to calculate the pensions of 25 a 35 years.
When the scientific and technological conditions exist that would allow working fewer hours and there are a huge number of people hoping to get a decent job, without labor reforms or impositions of semi bondage; government "Most progressive in history" aims to work harder and get poorer pensions. Which are the reasons why the executive points in that direction?
They want to continue in tune with the reforms that other governments carry out carried out in different countries of the world, where workers and retirees represent a favorite target of settings. The maxim that economists and capitalist politicians is that you work more hours per day and more years of life. In precarious conditions, liquidating historical conquests of the movement worker for "Save costs" employers. Y, when they already squeezed people to the fullest, pay miserable pensions for "Save the boxes" or directly, for promote the negotiation of private retirement.
further, intend to comply with the requirements of the Union European to receive the 140.000 million from the reconstruction fund. When the agreement was announced, we warn that it would not be free, that you help them would arrive with adjustment of public spending and they are developing it. Meetings between officials and patterns under the simulation of a "Mutual collaboration" are preparing the conditions to favor large IBEX35 companies, as also we have raised it.
It is false to claim that there is no money to finance the system public pension with a retirement age of 55 years, a decent income and readjustable based on the increase in the cost of living and paid in full by the employers. It's more, could be synchronized with an employment shock to liquidate unemployment. The point is that employer profits are protected above people's lives and that the money available is destined to increase the capitalist profits, to royalty and a small social sector of privileged. Y, Before this panorama, CC.OO. and UGT should do more than critical statements and partial statements, calling for a fight plan and a general strike in defense of a decent pension system. So that the majority of the population does not pay the costs of the crisis, you need to recreate a great social mobilization like the one in 2018 headed Marea Pensionista and deepen it unitarily throughout the Spanish State, next to the class worker defending her own interests.
