The general secretary of CCOO, Unai Sordo, has launched this Wednesday an attack against the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, whom he has described as a "blabbermouth" after she referred to trade union organizations as "trash".
"She, of trash and of mafias, it is true that she is a competent authority and would deserve a Nobel in the matter," the CCOO leader has replied in statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press.
Despite this, Sordo has stressed that, coinciding with today’s general strike day, "it is not the day to talk too much about blabbermouths like the president of the Community of Madrid," to whom he has attributed "a large part of responsibility for the deterioration of the income of Madrid families."
The union leader explained that the worsening of the economic situation of households is due not only to wages and the increased cost of housing, but also to the extra cost they face in order to access essential services in the face of the loss of quality of public benefits.
"Families are increasingly having to spend more of their salary to pay for services that the public administration increasingly provides worse. Those for healthcare workers, for education, or for care," he said.
In his criticism of the head of the regional executive, Sordo denounced that Ayuso is promoting a "deep political commitment to selective privatization," and cited as an example the vocational training positions that are not offered in the public network and that force many families to go to private centers.
"If any experimental laboratory on how to privatize services in order to do business for friends, acquaintances, family members and associates we have in Spain, it is the Community of Madrid," he criticized, insisting that the loss of household income "is not a meteorological phenomenon like cyclogenesis," but the direct consequence of a "political decision".
Demands on parties ahead of the general elections
On the other hand, with 18 days to go before the general elections, Sordo has said that, after the day of stoppage on November 11, "no party will be able to put themselves on the sidelines" in the face of the housing problem and the deterioration of public services, both in the autonomous sphere and in the state debate during the campaign.
The general secretary of CCOO has called on political formations to clarify whether they support the creation of a park of one and a half million homes at protected prices and how they plan to guarantee the emancipation of working youth.
Along these lines, he has described the day of mobilization as an "enormous intergenerational embrace" and a "hinge of an era" intended so that the youngest generations have the necessary backing to build an autonomous life project.