The Government of Spain, the CCOO-UGT and the Employers’ Association have signed the “Social Pact”, through which antisocial and anti-national reforms will be imposed in the South Basque Country. These are antisocial reforms, because it is the workers, the unemployed and the unemployed and the women who will pay for this crisis; it is a crisis created by the financial sector, which has forced the indebted States to carry out reforms such as pensions to ensure that they pay the credit and their attractive interests. You will have to work harder to get a lower pension. These are anti-national reforms, because in the case of the Southern Basque Country, it attacks our national right to decide on our economy and social protection system. The dependency that we have is aggravated by the fact that we are imposed from Madrid, the pension system that should be managed, agreed and decided in the institutions that belong to us.

The CCOO-UGT, they have been called “traitors” not only by other unions, but also by the internal sectors, and they will have to find their bases. Those who claimed that they would not accept a retirement age of more than 65 years have “devoured” the goal of the government and the markets: 67 years, even if they have counted as many exceptions as they want as balloons in the negotiation. They will therefore be responsible for the impoverishment and social exclusion of future pensioners, especially women and young people who are unemployed or precarious. Everything indicates that if the PNV supports the “Social Pact”, it will have the same responsibility. And in addition, in view of the national construction of the Basque Country, it would lose the opportunity to stand alongside those who claim our economy, the Basque framework of our labor relations and the institutions that would manage our social protection. They will also be responsible for these antisocial and anti-national reforms, because this “Social Pact”, for most Basques, is antisocial and anti-national.