ELA, LAB, CCOO, USO, ESK and CGT have mobilized this Saturday in Vitoria-Gasteiz in the face of the “insufficient” response from the SEA employers’ association, and have warned that there will be strikes in the metal sector in Alava.
The ELA, LAB, CCOO, USO, ESK and CGT unions have warned that there will be strikes in the metal sector in Álava if the employer maintains its “immobility” in the negotiation of the new agreement.
ELA, LAB and CCOO have called this Saturday for the mobilization of the sector with a demonstration in the capital of Alava which has also had the support of the other three centrals and 80 works councils. The march has passed through the main streets of Vitoria-Gasteiz behind a banner that could read “The metal of Álava in struggle for a worthy agreement”, and slogans have been heard in favor of the mobilization and demanding changes to the bosses .
The demonstration took place in front of the “insufficient” answer given by the SEA employer to the joint platform presented by ELA, LAB and CCOO at the negotiating table for the Álava metal agreement.
The centrals claim wage increases above the CPI and the reduction of the annual working dayamong other measures.
From THE Aa spokesman explained in statements to the media before the demonstration that the employers are offering things that are not “dignified” and recalled that they have “20 years without having a sectoral collective agreement.”
He has affirmed that, if SEA does not change its position, this demonstration will be the beginning of “larger mobilizations and strikes”. He has indicated that the next meeting with the employers is set for March 4, but has said that they do not expect changes in his position.
More forceful has been the representative of LABwho has assured that this Saturday’s march is the “starting point of a new phase of struggle” in the Álava metal industry, due to the “immobility” of the bosses, and that “the only thing left to do is specify the days of the strike” .
“We are already in a scenario of strikes in the sector,” he settled, while calling for the activation of all metal from Alava to achieve a “dignified” agreement.
A representative of CCOO he added, for his part, that in recent times the metal agreements have been renewed in Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa and that it cannot be that the workers from Alava are “second class”.
He has made a “clear” appeal to SEA so that it “moves” as soon as possible. “We have put content on the table and we need improvements in the agreement,” she said.
Source: Eitb
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