Tax reforms dependent on CoLA agreement, says Sek leader

The cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) is directly linked to tax reforms and one cannot exist without the other, Sek union general secretary Andreas Matsas said on Thursday, just hours after the trade unions accepted the government’s proposal on CoLA, while the employers threw it out.

Matsas said the two issues were “communicating vessels” and pointed out that the employers could not dismiss proposals that were in the interests of the workers