The PNV will reject the labor reform if it does not include the prevalence of regional agreements

The PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban, has affirmed that his group will not support the labor reform agreed between the Spanish Government, the employer’s association and the unions CCOO and UGT if it does not reflect the “priority” of the Basque agreements over those of scope. state. Vice President Idoia Mendia (PSE-EE) has admitted that “the prevalence of regional agreements would be a good culmination for the labor reform.”

“Day by day, the PNV is in the ‘no’ to the labor reform “Esteban has assured in an appearance before the media this Saturday in Bilbao.

He has indicated that the PNV understands that there are “positive aspects” in the agreement for the labor reform, but for this party “it is essential to preserve its own dynamic, which already exists de facto in Euskadi, with respect to labor relations, its own framework “.

After indicating that in the CAV there is a different “union dynamics” to that of the rest of the State and that relations with the business community are also “different”, the spokesman for the Basque Group in Congress has stressed that his party wants to “preserve that”, thus defending the “priority of level agreements of autonomous community “on those of state scope.

Aitor Esteban has stressed that the Government, the employers and the unions know this position of the PNV, since from the beginning it has expressed it “clearly and emphatically.”

“Probably the one who has the most difficulties to accept it today is the employer’s association, but, of course, without this being solved, we are not going to support the reform,” he added.

“I do not know with whom the Government is going to draw the proposal. It will be seen. But as long as we do not see this problem solved, we cannot give support to the reform,” he said.