Pensioners from various Autonomous Communities demonstrate this Saturday in Madrid in defense of "decent" pensions and wages

MADRID, 15 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Movements of pensioners from different autonomous communities have called a demonstration in Madrid for this October 15 in order to demand the revaluation of pensions with respect to the increase in the annual accumulated CPI and a minimum pension of 60% of the average salary.

Among the different convening platforms are organizations of pensioners from Galicia, Andalusia, Extremadura, the Basque Country and Madrid, as well as the State Coordinator for the Defense of the Public Pension System (Coespe), the Association for Early Retirement without Penalizing (Asjubi40) and the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).

This demonstration, which takes place at noon from the Plaza de Neptuno to Callao, will be the first step in a general mobilization that the organizers plan to carry out in November in the towns and communities to continue defending their demands.

In addition to demanding the revaluation of pensions with the CPI, they request an audit of the Social Security accounts and show their "rejection of the privatization of the Public Pension System (SPP)".

The convening pensioners' associations denounce that, while some communities are lowering taxes, such as Patrimony, the minimum and non-contributory pensions are "misery".

They also remember that pensions lost 3% of purchasing power in 2021 and that salaries and pensions are losing more than six points of purchasing power in the course of 2022.

Faced with this, they criticize, the Ibex 35 companies are breaking profit records, reaching 48,868 million euros in the first half of the year.

"The fundamental cause of the increase in prices is not wages or pensions: they are those who, in a monopoly regime, set prices to maintain and increase their scandalous benefits," they denounce.

"We will continue in the street until we reverse the counter-reforms that are being imposed on us, end the gender gap in salaries and pensions, eliminate the penalty for early pensions with long contribution careers, recover the rights lost in the successive labor and pension reforms , generate an equitable distribution of wealth and improve and guarantee universal and quality public and community services", warn the organizers.