The CCOO and UGT unions expect the climate created around the 8-M feminist strike mark “a before and an after “on equality, according to the leaders of the two organizations, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, respectively, in Seville on Tuesday. After insisting that the mobilization “is not partisan “ but it does have an ideological aspect of “political struggle” for an “egalitarian society”, they pointed out that about 83 percent of women are in favor of supporting the unemployed.
Majority unions made one yesterday call for mobilization of workers to support two – hour shifts per shift so that “it is one apotheosis success of social mobilization “and visualize the weight of women in certain sectors such as health or education, where they are the majority.” The 8-M must stop, “insisted Just before attending the pre-March 8 meeting of delegates in Seville, Alvarez stressed that the aim is not to conceive of the day as a “women-only issue”, but to “open a debate on work centers “on the employment discrimination that women suffer and “analyze how we are able to build a society where these situations are eliminated.”
At this point, the head of the UGT has pointed out that not calling the strike is also a political option, and that those who raise this call in the negative “will have to respond to history” because “it is important” to move forward. “It would be unforgivable not to take the opportunity given the climate that has been created, to make the 8-M a day that represents a before and after in equal rights and the dignity of women,” he said. the leader of UGT. In the same vein, Sordo predicted that “there will be a tide in a movement of empowerment as Spain has not known”, assuring that Thursday’s day “will be a great stimulus so that the discourse of inequality has no place”.
The two leaders have agreed that although the wage gap between men and women is the central axis of the claim, there are more aspects to focus on, such as workplace harassmentthe discrimination of women in positions of responsibility orlast labor reform of the PP, which “has led to more discrimination and marginalization of women in the world of work.” As the general secretary of CCOO Andalusia, Nuria López, clarified, this reform has harmed women because they are the ones who “have the obligation to have a part-time contract to reconcile”.