Mitxel Lakuntza, General Secretary of ELA: “We want to defend the purchasing power of salaries and pensions and to demand some decent social benefits” Euskal Herria’s Charter of Social Rights is calling for mobilisations against the process of impoverishment: demonstrations on the 19th of November The impoverishment process is speeding up. ELA’s proposals to face up to this crisis ELA demands the dissolution of NATO as a route towards a safer and more peaceful world Last weekend’s deaths at the Melilla border fence are the result of the European Union’s policies ELA will back Industry and Construction for a sharing out of the wealth in view of the growing business profits ELA-Gizalan will be invested in the consolidation of public employment and in dignifying care work The ELA-Zerbitzuak federation will redouble its efforts in the fight against job insecurity and the wage gap, after carrying out 100 strikes in 4 years ELA demands an urgent tax reform to ensure that companies contribute at least 25% of their profits to the Corporations Tax Over the past five years 13,000 members of ELA have defended their labour rights using the strike fund 1st of May| Mitxel Lakuntza : “For the wealth to be shared out, we need good agreements, not an Income Pact” #April28: “The greater amount of temporary work, part-time contracts or poverty suffered by women have an impact on their health and they demand a different approach” More news >>