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| Spain's major union calls for strike |
| 2010-05-14 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] In Spain, the General Union of Workers (Union General de Trabajadores) is calling for a public sector workers strike in early June. The union urged all public workers to "observe a general strike on June 2", Reuters reported. The call for the strike comes as a response to measures taken by the Spanish government to decrease its huge deficit. Earlier, another major union, CCOO, also threatened it would call for a strike over the government's new plan. Spanish Prime Minister José Zapatero, who has experienced being threatened by talks of general strikes before, met with the leaders of both unions on Thursday, trying to explain the need behind the plan. Guess the socialist and the labor leaders aren't pals anymore ... Later on Wednesday, Zapatero announced austerity measures worth 15 billion Euros over a period of two years. Chump change ... The new plan includes "a five-percent pay cut for public workers, a partial freeze on pensions and the scrapping of a 2,500-euro payout to parents for the birth of children. According to Spanish media, the wage cut measure was the first since the end of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship in 1975. I hear he's still dead... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Crazy Eddie |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-05-14 14:56 |
| #2 Spare the rod... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-14 04:50 |
| #1 I hear he's still dead.. ...and pro'lly glad to be done with this whole mess. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-05-14 01:05 |