The Minister of Labor and Social Security assured that the opposition did not recommend any reform option in the last two years.
The minister of Work and Social Security (MTSS), Paul Miereswas opposed to the general strike as a protest against the social security reform organized by the PIT-CNT for this Tuesday April 25th. The minister maintained that the trade union “criticize the content” of the project without offering “an alternative“, nor did he broad front (FA) in the last two years, assured Underlined.
Mieres remarked that, despite the strike, he has “the impression” that “tomorrow will be a day where there will be activity“, given that “people are not here to lose days of work“, and that it also “understands that there is a government decision” to look at the long term.
The PIT-CNT, which will hold a rally in front of the legislative Palace At 3:00 p.m., he posted on his Twitter account that “the people know that the government has the false story that this reform is positive“, and “It is inconsistent for the majorities, but not for the interests of the capitals that truly represent this executive power.“.
From the union center they had already accused the government of carrying out “a covert fiscal adjustment”, and now they warned him that in case the reform is approved “will have the strong opposition of the trade union movement and the popular movement all“.
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“It is not true that the reform is done on the back of the worker,” said Mieres
Along these lines, the minister assured that “It is not true that the reform is done on the back of the worker“, because “the worker’s contribution will remain the same and the number of years that must be computed to retire as well”, but that “the only thing that changes is the age of withdrawal long-termfor workers who are less than 50 years old today”.
In turn, he pointed out that in exchange for this “there will be a system of greater equity, where the lowest pensions will have a solidarity supplement that will allow them to collect better pensions than the current ones”, in addition to “going to a single regime that modify the privileges that currently exist depending on the social security subsystem”.
Source: Ambito
