Unions and the metal employers reach a preliminary agreement on the agreement after a nine-day strike in Cádiz

Unions and the Federation of Metal Entrepreneurs of Cádiz (FEMCA) have reached a pre-agreement at the negotiating table of the metal agreement. It still remains for said pre-agreement to be ratified in an assembly by the workers to make the call effective of the metal strike after it started nine days ago, on November 16.

According to the CCOO union, the pre-agreement reached will allow “maintaining the purchasing power” of the workers affected by the old agreement. The employer’s association proposed a salary increase of 1.5%; the new agreement foresees an increase of 2% per year which will be reviewed in 2024, the union has reported.

The pre-agreement also incorporates the creation of a surveillance commission that will observe compliance with the agreed agreement, which gives “guarantee to the entire workforce. “Said agreement also includes a two-year term from the expiration of the agreement.

The secretary general of the Federation of Industry of CCOO Andalusia, José Hurtado, values ​​that the preliminary agreement between unions and the employer “represents a fucking inflection” for workers in the industry. He added that thanks “to the tireless negotiation and mobilization“It has been possible to achieve an agreement closer to the demands of the workers than” to the claims of the employer. “

Yesterday, which ended with a preliminary agreement between both parties, began with the arrival of a delegation of workers from Tubacex, to support the striking metal sector. The delegation delivered a resistance box of 3,800 euros collected from staff.