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Mayor Slams Government and Unions! The Mayor of Almuñécar, Juan Carlos Benavides, has declared Tuesday’s strike day a flop and said that the “Unions have lost all credibility”! The strike was called in response to the Government’s recently announced austerity measures, which included cutting the salaries of public sector workers and the sacking of 13,000 civil servants, in order to reduce the growing budget deficit in the country. The unions object to the fact that only public workers are expected to suffer as a result of the rescue plan and accused Zapatero of reneging on a promise that no social cuts would take place. Assessing the effects of the public worker’s strike, the Mayor commented that it was barely supported here in Almuñécar, with only about a dozen people participating. He said that the strike has come at a time when people should be tightening their belts and regaining lost competitiveness by working more and charging less. He agrees that public workers are poorly paid, but argues that the problem lies in the fact that there are too many workers in the public sector, making Spain’s bureaucratic administration the highest in Europe - underpaid but very expensive. He also said that, instead of “taking the easy way out” with pay cuts, the Government should have started by looking at its own “wasteful expenditure”, for example, the Government’s failure to privatise Andalucía’s Canal Sur which, he said, is “like the rest of the public broadcasters in other communities living on their respective governments. These and many other services paid for with public money leads to excessive spending. Many of these companies could be privately run, thereby avoiding the excessive financial burden they impose on our nation". The Mayor claims that both Zapatero’s Government and the Unions have lost the confidence of the people. He said: “Zapatero is not credible, and Unions are even less so, which was demonstrated by the lack of support for strike. We are at the bottom of the well and this will continue all the while we have a Government that doesn’t govern and Unions that only care about the salary and offices of their Executive members. Until these things change, it will be a long while before the crisis is over”. By Tressa Davey Jun 10, 2010
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