This Wednesday they have seconded a three-hour strike. The mobilizations will continue on January 18 with a two-hour strike and a rally. The works council has denounced that the staff has been since the end of 2019 with the expired and denounced agreement.
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Workers at the Petronor refinery, in Muskiz (Bizkaia), have started mobilizations to demand the agreement and have seconded a three-hour strike this Wednesday after approving in assembly a calendar of mobilizations that includes carrying out 88-hour strikes during the month from January.
During today’s strike, held between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. at the call of the works council, part of the workforce has concentrated on the accesses to the refinery behind a banner that read “In Fight for the Covenant!”.
The mobilizations will continue on January 18 with a two-hour strike and a concentration in front of the Bilbao headquarters of the Labor Inspectorate, which they question for its “permissibility” in the face of the “thousands of overtime” that are carried out in the company. . In 2022, they have been made “30,000 Extra Hours”as specified by the UGT representative Joseba Allende.
PETRONOR BORROKAN
1st day strike for a fair distribution of profits
Staff cuts and increases below the CPI are not reasonable in a company with a historical record of profits (€389 million in the first nine months of 2022)#petronorrekolangileakborrokan pic.twitter.com/JnWaaWXecL
— CCOO Petronor (@CCOOPetronor) January 11, 2023
The works council has denounced that the workforce, made up of a thousand workers, has been with the expired and denounced agreement since the end of 2019.
To date, there have been twelve meetings of the negotiating table, with no expectations that an eventual agreement is near.
The works council has criticized in a note that the management, which applied an ERTE in 2021, has obtained “the highest number of benefits in its history”, with €305 million in the first nine months of 2022, while the workforce has a frozen salary.
The union representation, which demands salary increases that ensure the maintenance of the purchasing power of the workers, has indicated that the company’s proposal, which proposes an agreement for five years, supposes “a reduction” of the same since “it does not ensure the CPI in tables”.
Source: Eitb
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