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Trade unions will claim their own SMI, pensions and "decent" wages or housing rights during the May 1 mobilizations

ELA and LAB will take to the streets separately, as will ESK and LSB-USO, while CCOO and UGT will mobilize together.

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May 1st mobilizations last year. EITB

Coinciding with International Workers' Day,  will fill the streets of the Basque Country with proclamations on May 1. ELA, LAB and ESK will separately demand a minimum wage of 1,500 euros of their own (SMI) and policies in favour of the working class. CCOO and UGT will mobilize together to defend wages, housing and democracy as fundamental rights.

ELA demonstrations in Pamplona and Bilbao

The ELA union, which will have as its main demand its own minimum wage of 1,500 euros, has stressed that it will continue to fight for this demand. "Until Jo ta ke decides here"  has called on the workers to take to the streets to demand the transfer of this competence, whileaskingthe president, Imanol Pradales, to take responsibility for it .

It has also criticised the actions of the employers Confebask , considering that it is "further and further away" from the reality of Basque society. 

ELA will hold the main mobilizationsof the day in Bilbao (Sacred Heart) and Pamplona (Monument to the Fallen), starting at 11:30. 

LAB has made 26 calls.

On the other hand, the LAB unionwill call for three concrete measuresin the 26 demonstrations it has called for throughout Euskal Herria under the slogan  "Langileok eragin", such as the right to housing, quality public services and decent wages and pensions.

According to LAB, employers, as with the financial crisis, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, will try to ensure that "the bill for the war in the Middle East is paid by the working class, making prices more expensive and attacking employment and working conditions." Hor LAB will strongly express its message against the war. 

LAB has called demonstrations in six Basque capitals: Baiona (11:00 in Santa Ursula), Bilbao (12:00 in Zabalburu), Donostia (12:00 in Easo Square), Vitoria (12:30 in Plaza de la Provincia), Pamplona (12:00 in Plaza del Castillo) and Maule (11:00 in Kiosko).

UGT and CCOO, together.

UGT and CCOO will claim the role of trade unionism in the face of international instability and hate speech. Under the slogan "Rights, not trenches. Wages, housing and democracy", they call on citizens to fill the streets of Bilbao, San Sebastian and Vitoria. 

The mobilizationswill take place in the three capitals of the ACV: in Bilbao at 11:30 from the Sacred Heart, in San Sebastián at 12:00 from the Alderdi Eder and in Vitoria-Gasteiz at 12:00 from the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca. 

ESK will take to the streets in the capitals.

On the other hand, the ESK union has called for mobilizations in the four capitals of Hego Euskal Herria under the slogan "Capitalism, fight imperialism!" The union will denounce the "impoverishment" of the working class and demand an SMI of 1,500 euros.

The mobilizations will take place at 11:30 in Bilbao (Gran Vía, 56), 12:00 in Donostia-San Sebastián (San Telmo Museum) and Pamplona (Garlic Square), and 12:30 in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Palacio Europa).

LSB-USO, Bilbao

Finally, the LSB-USO union called on this first of May to "humanize employment" in order to address the increase in life  and the problem of housing. They say that today, having a job does not guarantee living in dignity.

He's going to demonstrate in Bilbao at 11:45 from the Albion Gardens.

Political parties in demonstrations

As in previous years, political parties will send delegates to many of these mobilizations. 

EH Bilduwill participate in the calls of the unions LAB, ELA, Steilas, CCOO and UGT. The most representative representation will be in the march of the LAB of San Sebastián, where the spokesperson for the Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, the Secretary of Program and Member of Parliament, Nerea Kortajarena, and the spokesperson of Gipuzkoa, Maddalen.

In the case of thePSE-EE, its Secretary General, Eneko Andueza, will join the call made by CCOO and UGT in Bilbao.

Asfor Sumar, Congressman Jon Hernández, Congressman Lander Martinez and Secretary General Alba García will take part in the march of CCOO and UGT, then Martinez and Garcia will join the mobilization of ESK. 

Finally, a delegation from Podemos Euskadi will join the demonstrations called by ESK to argue that the workers "struggle is" essential "in the face of" reactionary progress and an increasingly aggressive capitalist system. "

EHKS will take to the streets of Pamplona.

The Socialist Council of the Basque Country (EHKS) has also called for this May 1. They will mobilise against the imperialist war and say 'no to NATO, to the European Union and to Zionism'. They will proclaim that the working class' needs to become an international force '.

The demonstration in Pamplona will depart at 12:30 from the bullring.

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