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The Alliance of Progressive Labor – a national labor center in the Philippines composed of various types of workers’ organizations in the private, informal and migrant sectors – wishes to convey the warmest and deepest solidarity of the Filipino workers to the general strike today in Spain led by the UGT and CC.OO, and which will also be actively participated in by the IUF Spanish affiliates that belong to either confederation. One of our affiliates, NUWHRAIN, is also a longtime IUF member.

We fully support the September 29 nationwide strike as it is an earnest and compelling expression of the Spanish working people and their labor movement to say:

NO – to irrational cuts in public expenditures that will eventually batter the workers and ordinary citizens, including the children, sick, pensioners and indigents, by depriving them of many social benefits and government services that they justly deserved;