One of the outstanding issues for the Spanish economy is productivity. The day has 24 hours, and it's necessary to make the most of them. Clearly, the ideal is to do more and better with less time. This is the great challenge and the way for a society and the economy as a whole to progress. The reflection of everything is per capita income. If productivity doesn't grow, neither does the distribution of wealth. This is one of the tasks we have pending.

Donald Trump's arrival at the White House will not go unnoticed this May Day, or at least not among the majority unions, CCOO and UGT, which are proposing next week's mobilizations as a dam against the policies of the US president. "It should be a May Day marked by the clamor for shorter working hours, but it will be a clamor for democracy with the arrival of Donald Trump," said CCOO leader Unai Sordo at a press conference this Monday, during the presentation of the two unions' manifesto for International Workers' Day 2025: "Win the Future."

Urge to form a government and repeal the labour reform. The two fundamental demands of the first of May 2021. It is impossible to understand today, Workers' Day, without bearing in mind the devastating effects that the pandemic has had on the labour fabric. This is the immediate and easy conclusion that can be drawn by visiting the usual trade union rally and listening to the demands and claims of the actors summoned. Camil Ros, secretary general of the UGT, calls for the immediate formation of a government in Catalonia, an essential step for the approval of the budgets. "We ask the governments not to lose time, the state government with the elections in Madrid and the Generalitat with the investiture. We must reactivate the dialogue table and not give in to the pressure of the lobbies to face a partial repeal of the labour reform that has been postponed for a year". Ros is clear and forceful in the portrait of the situation of the financial sector: "The banks fulfilled a fundamental social function, now they close offices massively and stop serving the elderly as they deserve".