LAB supports the general strike on housing and says it is preparing with the other unions

LAB is working, together with other unions and social partners, to agree on a general strike motivated by housing problems, which would be calledfrom Euskal Herria to EuskalHerria. According to the union, LAB has responded to the possibility created in Spainto call a general strike by showing its willingness to use all the means at its disposal to fight for decent wages and against the rents and speculationthat is being given in the housing market.

With housing becoming a major social concern, LAB has explained that tenants have begun to organize and take trade union action in defence of the right to housing. This has been linked to the labour struggle. It affects all workers, and the increase in housing prices and speculation is one of the main reasons for impoverishing workers and deepening the gaps between workers.

As in the rest of Spain, LAB sees the possibility of a general strike in the South Basque Country. It believes that just as there was a strike in favour of the minimum wage itself in the spring, there is a need for a transformative trade unionism in housing.

As he explained in a statement, the struggle for the right to housing has become one of the main struggles to tackle the reactionary agenda, one of the main elements of impoverishment and precariousness of the workforce, and LAB believes that redistributive policies are the best way to close the doors to the far right.

In this regard, he has stressed that, like the Spanish Government, the Basque Government and the Government of Navarre have a responsibility, so he has made public four demands that the changes that are not possible in Madrid should take place in the Basque Country: the introduction of unlimited rents and intervention to lower prices; the paralysis of all evictions; the recovery of housing in the hands of vulture funds; and the end of public policies that fuel rents; the establishment of progressive taxation; and the strengthening of the public park.

It has also demanded that the PNVrenounce policies that turn its back on workers, both in Madrid and in the Basque Country. According to the union, jeltzales have defended the interests of real estate employers and speculators in Madrid and have turned their backs on the right to housing and the minimum wage itself in the Basque Country.