ELA calls for a strike from December 13 to 17 in the driving schools of Bizkaia

The ELA union has announced five new days of strike from December 13 to 17 in the driving schools of Bizkaia given the lack of response from the employer to the last counterproposal of the union to renew the agreement, without renewing for 11 years. Likewise, ELA has called a meeting of the negotiating table on December 9 at the headquarters of the Labor Relations Council, in Bilbao, and has asked the APAVI employer to come with a new proposal to channel the conflict.

Between his claims, the sector of driving schools in Bizkaia calls for a regularization of the salary tables to recover the purchasing power lost these 11 years, greater rationalization of schedules and measures to end the “significant gender gap that occurs in the most feminized administration positions “.

In his appearance this morning at the ELA headquarters, a representation of the staff has denounced that both wages, hours and other working conditions “are very precarious and, in many cases, irregular.”

From ELA they have recalled that in almost all driving schools, in the case of teachers, these they combine official salaries according to the agreement with amounts that are paid “irregularly”. In addition, non-teaching staff, especially administrative staff, mainly women, “barely reaches 1,000 gross euros per month.”

For this reason, they demand a reduction in working hours for this non-teaching group and reduce the gender gap, as well as “important” steps to equalize the teaching staff for 35 hours a week.

In Bizkaia between 350 and 400 workers spread over 80 driving schools and with subsections in around 120 work centers.