The Workers’ Front has deployed this Monday a banner in front of the UGT headquarters in Madrid with the message: "Closed for betraying workers". The action is part of the campaign by the group for the general elections of next 29 November.
The party president and candidate for Madrid, Roberto Vaquero, has criticized the leadership of UGT and CCOO, which he accuses of having lost its independence and of supporting the PSOE Government in exchange for subsidies. He has also reproached them, in his view, for not focusing their activity on demands related to wages, working hours, pensions, and housing.
Vaquero described the leadership of both unions as "the greatest traitors to the working class that have existed in this country". In his statements, he has questioned their actions regarding the increase in the retirement age, the evolution of wages, and the difficulties workers face in claiming their rights.
The party leader has defended the need to recover "a class unionism, independent and combative, that does not live off subsidies or deals with power". He has also announced that the Workers’ Front "will bring workers back out onto the street to win rights, not to kneel before the Government".
The Workers’ Front competes in the 52 constituencies
The group has submitted candidacies in the 52 electoral constituencies, including Ceuta and Melilla. According to the party, it is one of the four groups that run in all of them, together with the PSOE, the PP and Vox.
The Workers’ Front states that it has gathered more than 60,000 endorsements to register its candidacies, double what is required in some provinces. The collection of signatures was carried out through the participation of party members, sympathizers, and volunteers in different parts of the country.
The group maintains that this growth is also reflected in its electoral results and states that it was the party that increased its share of the vote the most between the 2023 general elections and the 2024 European elections, in which it doubled its result.