UGT considered this Thursday “essential”, but “late and clearly insufficient” the package of measures to alleviate the effects of inflation, amounting to 2,400 million euros, announced on Monday by the Prime Minister.
It is an essential and welcome package, although it cannot but be considered late and clearly insufficient, something that is all the more evident when we analyze the set of measures that other countries have been gradually assuming, before and with greater intensity in their intervention”, he says. a statement from the union central, released this Thursday.
UGT points out, however, “positively the fact that most of the measures contribute to decongesting the treasury of families, that they include a middle class that is usually excluded, that they are assumed in areas with an important weight in that treasury, and that, in a different option than in the past, the support was channeled directly to the people”.
However, the trade union center affirms that “the measures presented are not exempt from criticism” and argues that “many other measures are and will be necessary in the immediate and near future and not so near”, as the set of initiatives was known this week . “should be considered shy and conservative”, especially since some “are not entirely new”.
Regarding the measures adopted for retirees, retirees and pensioners, UGT “cannot fail to present its deepest and most vehement rejection.”
Under the pretext of guaranteeing in 2022 and 2023 a nominal value to pensioners identical to that which would result from the application of the pension update formula (which is questionable if this is the case), the President of the Government ignores the guarantee given by him of complying with the law and applying the pension update formula agreed upon in social consultation in 2006, to take a measure that is nothing more than an effective reduction in the amount of pensions in 2024 and until the end of their lives,” he says. the central .
“And this without even a complete justification regarding the possible future impacts of the periodic update of pensions on Social Security accounts and on their sustainability and in a scenario that is all the more serious if we take into account that in reality there is neither even an anticipation of the updating of pensions (hopefully 2023) and that the half-pension supplement, paid with the amount that would already be due to pensioners, excludes them even from the specific support of 125 euros, ”he adds.
In the document, UGT urges the Government to adopt measures such as the taxation of extraordinary and “unjustified profits of companies, the elimination of many unjustified taxes or the effective control of price fixing, moralizing this crisis and giving a new impetus to families and the economy”. ”. ”.
The trade union center defends that it is “imperative” to reintroduce measures such as prohibiting access to essential services, limiting the eviction of tenants or deferring the payment of loans for the purchase of one’s own home” and says that it looks forward to the package of measures for companies.
Source: Observadora
