From PSUC viu show our rejection of the central government's proposal to extend the retirement age to 67 years of age. The measure, approved by the Council of Ministers on 29 January, will be debated in Congress in the heart of the commission of the Toledo Pact, an agreement signed in 1995 and renovated in 2002, with contributory approach to more sustainable public pension system, ensuring its future viability. However, the central government is wrong, deliberately or not, when he questions the future of pensions and promotes a state of alarm among the English population in order to legitimize a deeply retrograde and unnecessary proposal.
Delayed access to retirement is an unnecessary measure, although they have Social Security in 2009 recorded a surplus of 8.502 million euros, equivalent to 0.8% of GDP. It is an unnecessary step if we consider that there is already a flexible pension that allows early retirement at the same time with penalties in the pension and the chance to stay in the labor market more than 65 years, with a slight bonus in the pension. In this sense, the system is cleared. It is a retrograde step, one more than the PSOE in the workplace, because it loads on the working class increased revenues to Social Security while in July the same government proposed a reduction in employer contributions of 2 %. Do not forget that in the 2006 reform already agreed to reduce employer contributions to unemployment and FOGASA, and on pensions approved an extension of the contribution period required to generate a pension actual years from 13 to 15 years effective in not counted the price of bonuses.
Moreover, the PSOE government proposal does not only extend the retirement age to 67 years but plans to extend the contribution period of the pension to 20 years, which would reduce the average amount of 4% pension. It is therefore a fallacy to justify the proposal to extend the retirement age because they have increased the life expectancy of the English population in four years. Accordingly, the central government intends to work more years and then charge less when accessing our pension. But while the government punishes the pensions of lower income and strengthening the requirements for access, on the other hand, continues to fund private pension plans of higher rents. Not surprisingly, the proposal itself open government to the private market pension system by strengthening the role of complementary social security. The privatization of pensions and social protection continues to be one of the aspirations of employers and neoliberal discourse, in order to approximate a dual model, based on a weak public Social Security and welfare purposes only, and complementary social protection of private initiative.
In short, since we reject the revision PSUC viu given by the central government of the covenant of Toledo and called on trade unions and the entire working class to express their opposition. The government's proposal is an affront to the public system of social protection against social rights of workers. In this context, in PSUC viu support and evaluate positively the call for demonstrations against the proposed measures by the government.
viu PSUC Executive Committee, February 8, 2010.
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