Unions organise lock-outs over bid to raise pension age

Unions organise lock-outs over bid to raise pension age: "UNIONS are preparing a series of lock-outs in protest over plans to increase state pension age to 67 and have warned the government that there may be further general strikes.

Secretary-general of the workers' commission, or CCOO, Ignacio Fernández Toxo, and of the UGT (general workers' union), Cándido Méndez, say the move is 'unjust' and 'counterproductive', since it forces people to go on working when they no longer feel mentally or physically capable rather than freeing up jobs for younger people.

Today, they organised lock-ins in social security offices in provincial and district capitals.

Although they say they are open to negotiation, as is the government, neither party has been able to come to an agreement.

Fernández Toxo and Méndez told the government to 'be warned', that they are not going to 'take it lying down', and that they are quite prepared to organise more countrywide strikes."

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