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SOLTIMES MAY 2010
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Public Sector General Strike Called For June 2
Trade unions are angry at the Government’s plans to cut civil servants wages by 5% & to freeze pensions Any hopes that the Spanish Prime Minister may have had of holding off union protests over the Government’s austerity plans by meeting the leaders of the two main unions UGT and CCOO were dashed when the Public Services Federation of the UGT joined with the CCOO and announced plans for a General Strike of all public sector workers on June 2. The unions are particularly angry about plans to freeze pensions and to reduce civil servants wages by 5% this year and freeze them next year, despite the exceptions at the lowest levels.
red line had been crossed, and said that the measures came as a result of ‘international financial power which had put states on their knees’, adding now the Government proposed more suffering for the workers.
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Before the public sector workers general strike, called for June 2, the UGT union is calling for demonstrations from public workers in all provincial capitals on May 20th. This call is supported by other unions CCOO, the CSIF Civil Servants Union, the SUP Police Union and the Unified Association from the Guardia Civil.
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Enrique Fossoul, General Secretary of the Citizens’ Services Federation of the CCOO said that they are ‘criminalising’ the civil servants because 90% of public sector workers earn less than 1,500 €. He also expressed concern to the fact that the Government has opened the door to more adjustments, and lamented that now it was the ‘speculators’ who are dictating Spanish economic policy.
The Chairman of the CEOE Employers’ Organisation, Gerardo Díaz Ferrán, met with the Prime Minister on Thursday afternoon, with Jesús Bárcenas, the President of the CEPYME small business group. He said that the Government should be allowed to govern, and distanced himself from the unions. ‘The country should come together and look for solutions’, he said. He also suggested that the Government could cut subsidies for those public services which are not free at point of use.
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He described the new measures announced by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as an opened door which would be difficult to close. The unions found support from the IU left wing coalition. Their general coordinator, Cayo Lara, said that a
White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, confirmed the phone call, and said that the Spanish Government had already started to work on new economic reforms. Gibbs said he did not want to give details of the conversation, but said the call was made because Spain’s problems meant that reforms were needed. He said that Obama and his economic team have been supervising the situation in Europe for some weeks, and that the President had been in contact with some leaders to ‘encourage them to take the steps needed’ to avoid any slowdown in the recovery from recession.
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There has been plenty of international reaction to the measures. Barack Obama has considered them ‘bold’ and welcomed the ideas which he said would create confidence in the markets. Hugo Chávez of Venezuela however declared himself to be ‘surprised and worried’, and said the measures reflected the crisis in capitalism.
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The new measures are expected to be passed by the cabinet and put into immediate effect by Royal Decree.
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Speaking last Thursday, the Minister for Tax and the Economy, Elena Salgado, has said that taxes will not increase, for now. However other Ministers have failed to give that undertaking to the media, leading to reports of a lack of coordination over the planned measures.
British Paedophile Arrested In Barcelona Martin Anthony Smith has been on the run from the U.K. for the past two years
One of Britain’s most wanted paedophiles, 45 year old Martin Anthony Smith, originally from North Shields, has been arrested in Barcelona. New of his arrest by the Catalan police, Los Mossos d’Esquadra, last Friday in the HortaGuinardó district of the city has just been released. The man, who has claimed to be a medium in the past, is accused of several sexual aggressions between 1995 and
2005 and is also accused of repeatedly raping his step-daughter. He has been living in Barcelona for the past two years that he has been on the run from the British authorities. They had thought that he was in Spain with his wife and daughter, and included him in their Operación Captura campaign. He will now be extradited back to the UK to face justice.