CCOO has considered “good news” an increase of these characteristics because “it makes the construction attractive to retain good professionals.”
CCOO of the Basque Country, UGT-Euskadi and the business organizations Bizkaia Builders Association (ASCOBI), Biscayan Association of Excavators (AVE) and Master Painters have signed a salary increase of 6.5% for 2022 in the Bizkaia Construction Agreement, as reported by CCOO, a union that has a 50% representation in the sector.
Its general secretary of Habitat in Euskadi, Txema Herrero, has considered “Good news” an increase in these characteristics because “it makes the construction attractive to retain good professionals”.
“Increases of this type make it easier to attract labor in the absence of professionals that companies are demanding to cover all the works that have to be carried out in the historical territory,” he assessed.
After indicating that “this is the first sectoral agreement in the Basque Country that agrees to a wage increase of 6.5%”, the CCOO has also highlighted that with this agreement “it is demonstrated once again that the maintenance and improvement of provincial sectoral agreements it’s possible”.
The union has pointed out that “this is a more commendable fact, if possible, in a sector as affected by the crisis as construction has been, but with the great potential to generate employment due to the upcoming large civil construction works that involve the arrival of the TAV to Bilbao or the Lamiako Subfluvial Tunnel“.
From now on, he stressed, “union work consists of guaranteeing compliance with the agreement and the law, both in large companies and in small ones and subcontractors that carry out works in the historical territory.”
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