Spain - Unions react angrily on public sector pay cuts - May 13, 2010

Public service federations FSC-CCOO and FSP-UGT have attacked the government for its sudden announcement of deep public spending cuts. The government wants to cut pay by 5% this year and have a pay freeze in 2011. Most pensions will be frozen and a range of other measures will add up to Euro 5 billion of cuts this year and Euro 10 billion in 2011. Unions are angry at the way the government has broken agreements with the unions and wants to force public sector workers to suffer cuts in pay and pensions because of the pressure of the international financial markets.

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/365;

Spanish: http://www.fspugt.es/El_Gobierno_anuncia_recortes.htm

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.