The UGT and CCOO unions have put their support for the strike in Andalusia at around 75%. In sectors such as cleaning, they point to an incidence close to 90%, while in the chemical industry participation would have been around 65%. All of this, despite some minimum services that they have described as “disproportionate”. “This strike is on the right track. It is a success for the working class and for society as a whole.” “A resounding success. Let them take note.”
In his appearance before the media, the general secretary of UGT Andalucía, Oskar Martín, has stressed that the message that was intended to be conveyed with this general strike day has sounded “loud and clear”: “We don’t want wages held hostage by runaway prices; with no access to housing and with collective bargaining blocked by employers.”
According to UGT Andalucía, the public has said “enough already” and that warning must reach “loud and clear” “everyone who has responsibilities”. In this regard, Oskar Martín has said that, after 11N, trade union organizations are going to “keep fighting so that this country changes course” both on the economic and social fronts.
For her part, the general secretary of CCOO, Nuria López, has emphasized that the call is “a resounding success” despite some minimum services that she has described as “abusive” and that, as she has denounced, “have allowed companies to commit atrocities” and have generated “chaos” in certain companies. López has reiterated the “success” of the strike despite the “poisoning of political forces that have spread fear and despite the attempt to discredit the unions”.
“Workers and young people are aware that the problems raised in this strike are real and that they suffer them first-hand,” she has said, while at the same time calling for “everyone” who holds responsibilities to “take note,” because “workers want our share of the pie, which they always leave us the smallest bite of.”