The secretary of Institutional Participation of CCOO at a state level, Carmen Vidal, has explained this Monday that in the general strike called for next Wednesday they will demand from the different governments and employers' associations a more equitable distribution of business benefits, as well as greater control over housing prices and over inflation.
Vidal set this out at a press conference in which she has predicted that the mobilization will be "historic" because it is the first general strike in democracy that is proposed "on the offensive". She has recalled that, habitually, general strikes are organized in response to cuts to rights, while on this occasion the call is because the current measures "are insufficient".
On the other hand, the general secretary of CCOO in the Balearic Islands, José Luis García, has indicated that workers "share" the reasons for the protest, although he has shown his concern that employees in the most precarious situations might not join the strike because they cannot assume the loss of a day's wages.
Along these lines, he has emphasized that support could approach 100 percent if it were not for the situation of the most vulnerable groups and for the imposition of a set of minimum services that he has described as "abusive". Because of this, he has warned that the level of follow-up to the strike will vary noticeably precisely due to the minimum services that have been set.