Miguel Borra, president of CSIF: "We do not support the strike, it exceeds the scope of work and it is two days before the campaign"
Miguel Borra, president of the union, questions the timing of the call and demands improvements for public employees
Quick Look
- The president of CSIF, Miguel Borra, announces that his union will not support the general strike.
- He argues that the call exceeds the scope of work and has an electoral undertone as it was made days before the start of the campaign.
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Why It Matters
The CSIF union distances itself from a general strike called in a pre-electoral context. The union demands the reversal of salary cuts that began in 2010.
The president of the Independent Trade Union Center and Civil Servants (CSIF), Miguel Borra, assured this Friday that his organization will not support the general strike, considering that the call "exceeds labor reality" and questioning that it is held two days before the start of the electoral campaign, with Parliament dissolved.
"We do not support this strike because it exceeds the labor reality and is called two days before the electoral campaign begins. We do not know against whom, although the person in charge of the PSOE campaign has already said that it is against the opposition," Borra stated in an interview on 'Es la Mañana de Federico', on esRadio, where he defended that "the tool of the general strike is not used correctly."
On the other hand, the union leader has indicated that, faced with a possible meeting with the next president of the Government after the elections of November 29, he would convey three priorities for public employees, starting with the recovery of extraordinary payments prior to the cuts approved in 2010 by the socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Borra has also called for a review of public administration staff, warning that there is a high aging of workers and a shortage of personnel in numerous services. In this sense, he has pointed out the difficulties of citizens in getting appointments at the SEPE and Social Security, as well as personnel problems in health and education.
Open Questions
- What impact will the absence of CSIF have on the monitoring of the strike?
