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Even without ending the de-escalation of the State of Alarm and perceiving actions of mindless minorities, without maintaining the minimum security measures that we hope will not force us to back down or, above all, generate new deaths, we are already seeing the economic and labor consequences of the pandemic.

The new reality that Oxfarm Intermon and the International Labor Organization (ILO) warn us about can be summed up in two very obscure parameters WORLDWIDE: workers will lose BILLIONS of euros, and half will also lose work.

Meanwhile, the 23 richest characters in Spain have increased their fortunes by 14,000 million euros in the last two months, and the richest 1% in the world by 240,000 million dollars.

In parallel, there are some worrying statements and actions,although the measures applied by the progressive coalition government, such as the long-demanded Minimum Vital Income, will undoubtedly cushion the most serious situations of poverty and need, and the employment protection policy deployed with the ERTEs, copied in countries around us with variations, it has managed to keep many workers safe from unemployment.Minister Escrivá, a pro technocrat, continues to maintain his thirteen respect to the Public Pension System according to his own statements, namely: delay in retirement age, maintenance of the sustainability factor and segregation of Social Security expenses.

The first two measures will mean gradual cuts in future pensions, which can reach in a few years that pensions represent around 50% of the last salary for future pensioners, our children and grandchildren, as we have explained repeatedly what we have fought and will continue to fight.

However, we agree on the segregation of SS expenses if it involves only the salaries of officials, investments in facilities, current expenses, or reductions in contributions and "flat rates"among others to transfer them to the PGE, but we will not be and we will combat it if the segregation of widow's pensions is proposed, as proposed by organizations such as the CEOE.Without having passed the danger still latent by the COVID-19, in some CCAA governed by the right and ultras already there are taking place dismissals of sanitary personnel, as well as new cuts in the public health favoring the private one.

That is, we are returning to the "old normal" that so many misfortunes and deaths have brought us.

Meanwhile, many European countries are acting as our autonomous governments should do, offering substantial conditions to our health workers to recover their health systems.After verifying the very serious deficiencies of the systems of the Home Help Systems and of the residences for dependent and elderly people where 18,000 people have died and the opening of more than 300 administrative and criminal files by the State Attorney General, especially in the private and concerted ones, and demonstrated the needs, among many others, of increases in the real ratios of specialized personnel per resident person, we find requests to the State for compensation for economic losses due to the deaths of "clients" and with dismissal of personnel , measures to increase profitability, the only magnitude that governs the final owner vulture funds of most of these residences.Deep changes in the Law of Dependency and the recovery of the public management of the privatized residences are urgently needed, as well as the SAD.The difficulties to carry out all these issues and others no less important (employment, housing, education, real wages, work-life balance, women, the environment ...) necessitate the unity of platforms and citizen groups both at the state and regional level and, of course, local, to continue supporting, pushing and claiming social policies such as those being implemented by the Government of the Nation, and to continue on the path of rebuilding people's lives at the three levels of the Administration, despite the problems involving the actions of many Autonomous and Municipal Governments.For our part, we participate at the state level in COESPE (State Coordinator for the Defense of the Public Pension System), at the regional level we have put our small grain of sand in creating the sum of groups SOCIAL SHOCK PLAN Region of Murcia that Yesterday, it was presented to the media, and we believe it is VERY NECESSARY for a genuine coordination of the city's collectives to form a grouped network of a kind of "Social Cartagena" that optimizes efforts and helps raise public awareness.As Yay @ flutes we will not call mobilizations nor does it seem prudent to do so until the end of the State of Alarm situation.

In addition, we are a high-risk group, including some of VERY high-risk, but we will support, as we are doing, citizen initiatives OF A SOCIAL NATURE that arise with a timely presence and maintaining all security measures; also participating by videoconferences in debates and in decision-making that are always aimed at defending the rights of TOD @ S, becauseGOVERNMENT WHO GOVERNS, SOCIAL DEFENDS!

Source: Yayoflautas Cartagena