February 11, 2016, 15:12 Madrid, Feb 11 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of people demonstrated here Friday against the criminalization of the right to strike, coinciding the trial this week sat on the bench eight workers.
Madrid called by the trade union movement, the march went from the Plaza de Cibeles to the central Puerta del Sol, where a statement was read on behalf of the right to strike and the repeal of section 315.3 of the Criminal Code.
The protesters demanded the repeal of that section of the legal text, punishable by up to three years in prison those who, individually or collectively, to coerce others to initiate or continue a cessation of work.
that claim focused on current recent days, with the start on Tuesday the controversial trial against eight trade unionists who protested in 2010 against the Airbus plant located in the Madrid suburb of Getafe.
the eight Airbus, as they are known by his performance in that aircraft factory during the general strike of 2010, are accused of crimes of assault, injury and against the right of workers to violate Article 315.3.
Each of the defendants faces a request from the Prosecutor eight years and three months in prison for what happened on September 29 of that year, when riots and police load took place.
the quoted section of the Penal Code endowed this process of significant importance, after the main Spanish labor unions and several political parties called it a threat to the right to strike and an attack on democracy.
the unions consider it a continuation of the Francoist legislation in reference to the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939-1975).
the secretary General of the Trade Union Confederation of Workers’ Commissions, Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, today confided that within the first acts of the new legislature figure unanimous decision to abolish the controversial article.
these workers are incriminating to attack this right as was done with the manifestation with the Global Gag Rule, Fernandez Toxo said, referring to the Organic Law Protection of Public Safety, in force since July 2015.
Toni Ferrer, secretary of Trade Union of General Workers Union said at the rally that the fact that there are 300 defendants throughout the country to defend this right is a democratic anomaly.
for the United Left deputy Alberto Garzón, the scene of repression and growing authoritarianism in Spain is truly worrying.
the unionists are paying the witch hunt that started the Spanish “economic and business Inquisition denounced Garzon, who also participated in the march
mem / edu.
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