The leader of Sumar and second vice president of the acting Government, Yolanda Díaz, has promised to “fight” and “give her all” during the negotiations with the PSOE to have “the best progressive coalition Government” and for the next legislature to be that of the “social advances” against the “politics of hate” of PP and Vox. To achieve this, she has demanded proposals such as the reduction of working hours. “The time has come to move forward,” she claimed.
Díaz has defended this commitment by Sumar – to establish a maximum working week of 37.5 hours in 2024 and progressively reduce it until it is set at 32 hours – with the aim of “increasing productivity”, in the face of the “shame” of having “the same working day in the last 100 years.” “That’s why we are negotiating with the PSOE, but we want more,” she expressed during her speech at the Compromís-Sumar ‘A per l’agenda valenciana’ event, in Valencia.
She has also demanded that during the next legislature the layoffs be “touched upon” and “changed,” after “they were not achieved in the previous negotiation,” with the purpose of “improving the rights of workers when they lose their jobs.” “The next one has to be the labour legislature,” she stressed.
Likewise, she has promised to “fight” so that the progressive government agreement – “we have been negotiating with the PSOE since August” – includes an increase in the minimum wage and pensions, “unlike what the PP says”, as well as stopping climate change, improve healthcare, put an end to “the precariousness of public administration” and, in terms of taxation and taxes, that “those who have the most, pay the most.”
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