Spain: mild support for the demonstrations against the pension reform

on February 23 by Workers’ Commissions and UGT in the country’s largest cities to protest against the draft pension reform were relatively successful. Unions say that 200,000 people gathered across Spain, under the slogan “don’t want to loose social rights, don’t want to retire later.” However, press agencies say that about half that number came. Union leaders, Candido Mendez (UGT) and Ignacio Fernandez Toxo (CCOO), who spoke with a moderate tone, said this was a warning mobilization showing th