Turning years and getting old is something that will affect us all. The fight for decent working conditions is important. It is a fight for the here and now, and also for our future and that of our families. However, it is necessary to take one more issue into account so that this fight does not lack a true perspective. Therefore, we must begin to think that the problem of pensions affects us all, and it affects us a lot.
Regardless of our age and current situation, we all aspire to be able to stop working someday. Therefore, it is essential to clarify, first of all, that pensions not only affect those who are already retired or who are close to retirement age. Moreover, those who are already receiving pensions are the least affected by the problem and the future of pensions.
Pensions depend to a large extent on the jobs of people who are employed. The more precarious the situation, the more uncertainty there is regarding pensions. Therefore, the fight to guarantee our future must be comprehensive, thinking not only about today, but also about tomorrow.
The recent Pact of the so-called social agents with the government, from our point of view, normalizes the precariousness of current pensions, compromising future ones, with a clear intention to dismantle the public pension system in order to privatize them in order to increase the profits of the richest at the expense of the well-being of the working class.
Statements such as those of the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, should put us on guard, even more so. The minister has stated that people born between 1950-1970 (baby boomers generation) will have to make an additional effort, or what is the same: retire later and receive less. The umpteenth argument to justify the cut in pensions by the minister placed by the bank in the government of Spain.
It is about demoralizing citizens by trying to explain that it is a technically unaffordable right that we must renounce.
Regardless of each person's date of birth, the problem of pensions is a crucial issue for the future of everyone. We call on the entire working class to demand a public pension system, both pensioners and active workers.
*Member of the Canal Gestión company committee representing the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).
Therefore, from the CGT we call on the entire working class, without exclusions.
