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Spain's two biggest trade unions used International Workers' Day (May 1st) ,yesterday, to question the effectiveness of labor reforms introduced last year by the Socialist government and to demand a new approach to the economic crisis.
"They said they were going to create a favorable environment for the creation of employment and unemployment has continued rising," said UGT Secretary-General Cándido Méndez at the day's main demonstration in Valencia. "They said that these measures would inject confidence into Spanish society, and the despondency continues; they said this labor reform was going to improve the granting of indefinite contracts in a direct way and one year later there are 130,000 indefinite contracts fewer."
Leader of the CCOO, Ignacio Toxo, spoke of a direct link between the unemployment figures of work and the recent labor cuts. "The unemployed don't fall from trees... we have 4,910,200 more reasons to demand alternative solutions," he said, speaking of the number of unemployed recorded in the latest official figures for the first quarter of this year.
Almost 10,000 demonstrators took part in yesterday's Valencia protest, marching under the slogan "Employment with rights, against the social cuts."
A further 80 similar demonstrations took place in other parts of the country. In Barcelona alone, a reported 40,000 people took part in the biggest of 10 marches held in the province.