Salvador Navarro, vice president of CEOE, calls Díaz "arrogant" for supporting union mobilizations

MADRID, 26 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV) and vice president of the CEOE, Salvador Navarro, criticized this Friday the "arrogance" of the second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, for showing her explicit support for union mobilizations against employers to raise wages in Spain.

Navarro, in statements to the SER network collected by Europa Press, has assured that he does not understand the position of the vice president of "putting himself first in the union demonstration", since the current moment requires reaching agreements, "but with consensus, not with the roller".

The vice president of the Spanish employers' association has affirmed that Minister Díaz shows "little empathy towards companies" with her demonstrations. "They are demagogic messages. This country is a country of freelancers and small and medium-sized companies and that is the reality," Navarro stressed.

The president of the Valencian employers' association has reminded the minister that businessmen have made efforts in recent months and that now is the time to have empathy with them in the face of the complicated months ahead, almost of "war economy".

In this sense, he has denounced the lack of "empathy" of Yolanda Díaz and the rest of the Government for not having agreed with the companies on the energy saving decree, validated yesterday in the plenary session of Congress.

"Negotiating is wanting both parties, not the arrogance of a vice president who intends to be the first (in the demonstration), but I think they are the messages she wants to send to her public," Navarro pointed out.

The vice president of the CEOE has assured that businessmen need social peace in the coming months and has defended that the employers will always maintain their willingness to dialogue, although negotiating, he recalled, implies making assignments.