News https://www.ela.eus/en/news/aggregator https://www.ela.eus/@@site-logo/ELA_logo_koloretan.png News FREEDOM FOR ÖCALAN ELA joins the global campaign to demand a political solution to the Kurdish question Palestine ELA joins the Gernika-Palestine Platform's demand for a ceasefire and the right to self-determination for the Palestinian People Confédération européenne des syndicats (CES) The General Secretary, Esther Lynch, meets ELA in Bilbao Racism and discimination ELA is launching a campaign to mobilise over 1,500 trade union sections in the fight against racism and discrimination INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST RACISM ELA mobilized to demand the end of racial discrimination STOP GENOCIDE! Against genocide in Gaza ELA joins the request for governments to support South Africa in the lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice The deaths in the Ionian Sea are due to the European Union’s inhumane policies ELA is the trade union that has obtained most representatives in 2023 and it has been consolidated as the leading union in Hego Euskal Herria (south Basque Country) (36.13%) ELA obtains a wage rise of over 23% after two years of dispute and a 68 day-long strike The EU will return to the austerity policies in 2024, as the tax rules will come back into effect The new Spanish pension reform means cutbacks ELA demands the repeal of the Law on Foreigners The end of the longest-lasting strike in Europe with 26% increases and 9,450 euros for each striker 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” ELA demands the Russian government to stop the war and urges negotiation and a diplomatic route to overcome it "Care means a radical change in outlook, from top to bottom. It has enormous political strength" “The fight against climate change is also a class struggle” ELA will intensify the fight in the work centres against nationalisation and the dismissals that the labour reform continues to allow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next 30 items »
