Confebask has demonstrated its “absolute willingness” to work on development, employment and welfare, and ELA has asked the company to focus on employers, as it refuses to accept “fundamental improvements”.
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Michael TorresThe Minister of Economy, Labour and Employment has concluded with Confebask and ELA the round of contacts he held this week with employers and unions, “very constructive” contacts for the Basque government, as he wrote in X.
The meeting with the president of Confebask, Tamara Yaguehas remained in an atmosphere of “cordiality”, according to the employers’ association, which has demonstrated “absolute willingness to work together for the development of economic enterprise, the creation of employment and the well-being of Basque society as a whole”.
ELA, for its part, asked the advisor to consider occupational health as a priority. In the meeting, in which the general secretary participated, Mitxel Lakuntzathe union has conveyed the need to “focus on the employers”, as it refuses to accept “fundamental improvements” in collective bargaining and only strikes make it possible to achieve “more and better agreements”.
In recent days, the vice-lehenakari has also met with the LAB, CCOO and UGT trade unions, which have also influenced social pressure and conflict as the only method to achieve improvements in working conditions.
Garbine Aranburugeneral coordinator of LAB, and Oihana Lopetegiresponsible for union actions and collective bargaining, took advantage of the meeting to convey to Torres their commitment to the struggle “for decent working and living conditions”. salary of at least 1,600 euros and a shorter working day”.
Loli GarciaGeneral Secretary of the Workers’ Commission, Torres said her union will continue to resort to the “binomial mobilization negotiation that has brought so many benefits to the working class.”
On behalf of UGT, its General Secretary, Raul Arzaurged the Basque government to strengthen the Labour Inspectorate, covering vacant positions to “exercise effective control on issues such as the quality of employment or compliance with schedules”, and defended social dialogue.
Source: EITB
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