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INPRIMATU
Analysis
On the street, even if I don't know if I'm going to have a retirement
Ainhoa Etxaide Amorrortu 2023ko otsailaren 07a
Baionan erretreten erreformaren kontra egindako mobilizazioa (argazkia: LAB)

I've been out on the street, although I don't know if I'm going to have a retirement," said a young journalist at Bayona's mobilization. The answer gives you what to think. The public pension system is one of the pillars of the welfare model, the axis of the social model. The resource we have to survive by being expelled from the labour market, our right to enjoy old age after all of our working lives… we all look at old age thinking about pension. And the young man's answer shows that he is increasingly looking at him without certainty.

New generations of workers grow and educate in a discourse that makes us think that workers are a burden when we stop being productive.

Reform with reform, governments have put us where the financial system wanted us and needs us. If it’s going to be enough, if we’re going to have pensions… With that doubt, we’re deciding what to do every time we don’t break the thinking framework that fuels the possibility of going to the private system.

New generations of workers grow and educate in a speech that focuses the debate on public pensions on cost and makes us think that workers are a burden when we stop being productive. It is hardly heard that the financing of pensions was limited to contributions in the Toledo Pact, or that the public system is not only able to support the resources generated by the citizens, but is fair and legitimate.

Public pension system based on intergenerational solidarity, manual and collaborative defence of different generations of workers. That is the discourse, the imaginary and the way to build the framework of thought that this struggle needs. Not forgetting that “and now what” is the doubt of many women after having been caring throughout their lives.