The Citizen Platform for the Dignity of the Self-Employed took to the streets of 21 cities in Spain on Sunday 30 November to demand, among other measures, VAT exemption up to €85,000 Or cancel a role … Professionals as “state collectors”.
These gatherings were concentrated in Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Mallorca, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tarragona, Tenerife, Valencia, and others.
The coordinator of the national demonstration for self-employed workers, Jessica Garrido, indicated in statements to the media in Valencia that self-employed workers want “Basically the rights that any employed worker would have.” “In the end, we pay and we are not entitled to sick leave, maternity leave, and we are not entitled to strike. She added: “I am not an employee, but I work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
Organization Requires “proportionate” shares of self-employed workers Adapted to the real monthly income of professionals and the comprehensive reform of cessation of activity (“self-employed unemployment”). Likewise, they demand that medical leave or family care be replaced with reduced contributions, and the right to mourn; Social protection is equivalent to that enjoyed by wage workers.
Among the demands they also claim The true simplification of bureaucracy and the end of incomprehensible language; Personal asset protection And the family home; Freedom to pay in cash and fair competition in collection methods; SGAE pricing review and freedom to use royalty-free music; Instant discount for investments.
The platform is an independent collective citizen, without party affiliations or profit-making purposes, that has emerged to They denounced the “unsustainable” situation for freelancers with “nonsense fees and stifling taxes.” And zero safety nets.”
One of these marches took place in the main streets of downtown Valencia, where the organization demanded “decent conditions” and “the rights enjoyed by any worker.”
Representatives of the platform warned, in statements to the media during the vigil, that “if there were no self-employed people, there would be no country, and there would be no wealth.” The participants wrote on the banner raised at the head of the protest that they were “suffocating” and chanted slogans such as “Raise your hands, this is theft” or “some steal and others work.”