On Sunday January 25, members of United Left-Green Eagles and the local branch of the PCE participated in Murcia in a demonstration called by CCOO against labor abuses against workers and the food industry.
According to union sources, the field workers spent months suffering harsh working conditions: excessive working hours in many cases over 10 hours, wage cuts (many workers are paid 20 euros a day when the agreement stipulates 50), not reported or contribute to social security, lack of provision of means to carry out their work ...
Councillor and IU-Greens candidate, María Isabel Torrente said that "we have come to join in the struggle of farm workers to regain rights that failed long ago thanks to a multitude of demonstrations and strikes and a stroke intended snatch the right ".
Meanwhile, Oscar Perez said that "from the Communist Party in Eagles come to defend the rights of workers in the field," asserting that "there are only obligations and a pittance of salary."
In the following days, representatives of CCOO Employer will meet with the food industry to negotiate working conditions of workers in the sector.
Source: IU-verdes Águilas