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The Socialist Group warns that "there is so much to do, so many achievements in which to continue working so that equality is real that we can not afford to go to an event, held during the strike called, which will only serve for self-promotion of the mayor"

The councilors and councilors of the Municipal Socialist Group have not attended the institutional event, organized by the government team of the PP, which aims to commemorate the International Women's Day because "you can not dispatch the massive demand and the great debate about equality that we are witnessing with a photo of the mayor, which is also organized during the strike time called by the unions. "

For the Socialists, "there is so much to do, so many achievements in which to continue working so that equality is real that we can not afford to be in an act that will only serve for the mayor's self-promotion", although, "yes, we congratulate ourselves with the well-deserved tribute to the first professor of the University of Murcia ".

"We would have loved that Ballesta, for example, had taken advantage of Women's Day to resolve the non-payment of salaries to women in home help, who are owed months of salary, derived from the previous contract."

For its part, the Socialist spokesperson, Susana Hernandez, said that "the PP does not believe in equality between men and women, although talk about it." One test are the centers of work and family life reconciliation of the municipality, built and They have been mounted to the last detail with public money and then they have given it to private companies, which, even managing public resources, charge families more than a purely private nursery school (0-3 years old). "

Therefore, he insists that "without conciliation equality is not achieved".

In addition, the councilor Begoña García Retegui stressed that "the City could have taken advantage of this day of protest to approach women who have it more difficult because we remember that women have suffered and continue to suffer the consequences of the crisis, they have to average annual gain about 6 points less than that of men, because they lead the unemployment rate, part-time work and have fewer pensions, in addition to the salary gap is on average by 23% to the detriment of the women's salary. "

Finally, councilor Maite Espinosa warns that "it is urgent to demand once again the need to promote coexistence in equality, especially among our young people, who can be given workshops or even a subject to value and raise awareness of the obligation to banish macho habits Our youth must be able to distinguish when a classmate is insulted or assaulted and naturally assume that there are no differences in education, work or daily life.

Source: PSOE Murcia