Deaf (CCOO) demands to raise taxes on large companies in the face of the "blockade" of employers to negotiate wages

VALENCIA, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the CCOO, Unai Sordo, has insisted that the Government "cannot put itself in profile" in the face of the "blockade and lack of responsibility" of the CEOE and Cepyme employers to negotiate the rise in wages and collective agreements to compensate for the increase of prices, and has demanded a rise of between 4% and 15% in the effective rate of Corporation Tax paid by companies with a turnover of more than 1,000 million euros.

Sordo, in statements to the media in Sagunt (Valencia), has defended this solution as an alternative to the "castle" position of the employers, considering that in this way "Spain would collect a few million euros" and could allocate them to the 9.5 million pensioners, workers with partial contracts or unemployed.

In his opinion, through the rise in the Corporation Tax it would be possible to create a benefit of 300 euros so that these groups can face the increase in prices: "2,800 million that can be collected with the cap, simply and simply rising to 15% the effective type.

Sordo has recalled that "the Government is not competent to set wages" because it is the responsibility of collective bargaining, although he believes that "it can do things, for example, through fiscal policy." And it is that he has warned that "if Spain once again devalues ​​wages, not only will there be more poverty, but the country will not grow."

Therefore, he has called on employers to support guaranteeing the purchasing power of wages for the next three years and to maintain the "co-responsibility" that in his opinion they had during the pandemic. “Of course – he has criticized – sucking tens of billions of public money, because the 40,000 million in the ERTE or in the provision for the self-employed not only saved three and a half million jobs, but countless companies.”

"If we Spaniards have contributed with public money to support companies, the least that companies can do, which are passing on cost increases to prices, is to be co-responsible with their workers", he explained, and warned of that otherwise there will be "conflict" and "intense mobilization" by their union.