AGAINST THE LABOUR PACKAGE What is at stake Salaries crushed for colossal profits Colossal profits and workers in difficulty, but the Government wants to further reduce low wages and devalue professions and careers: use unemployment and unemployment benefits to lower wages;

When everybody swears eternal love for wage increases, the PCP once again provides the opportunity for the Assembly of the Republic to decide to increase the national minimum wage to €1050 as early as January, thereby stimulating a general increase in wages and the valorisation of the careers and professions of all workers. Those who say ‘wages yes, but not now’ will come up with the old refrain: companies can't cope, we need to create wealth and then distribute it, productivity has to increase, and so on...

1. The changes in the fiscal field that the PSD/CDS Government intends to promote with the request for legislative authorisation submitted yesterday to the Assembly of the Republic constitute an unacceptable choice in favour of real estate speculation and fiscal injustice. The diversion of public resources to real estate funds, banks and large real estate owners is at the heart of this tax package, which goes even further than what was announced in September. 2. Among other serious aspects, the following stand out:

The ongoing mobilisation for the General Strike, with the support of a wide range of sectors, is already a powerful demonstration of rejection of the Labour Package that the Government and the rest of the right-wing, serving the interests of employers, intend to impose, in a serious setback for rights and an unacceptable worsening of the exploitation of workers. The more the Minister of Labour attacks the workers, the clearer the intentions of the Government and employers become, the more unity grows, and the conviction increases that this struggle is just.