The general secretary of ELA has assured that the salary increase agreed in the preliminary agreement signed yesterday “will not be applied to the real salaries, but to the tables”. “In most Alava companies, salaries are currently set above these tables,” he said.
Euskaraz irakurri: Lakuntza: “Arabako metalgintzako langile gehienei ez zaie ezarriko soldata igoerarik”
The unions LAB, CC. OO. and UGT yesterday reached an agreement in principle with the employers’ association Alava-SEA at the negotiating table of the Metal de Araba agreement, which includes a wage increase for the validity of the agreement (until the year 2025) of more than 15% and with a guarantee clause of the CPI, a reduction in annual working hours, subrogation and “improvements in equality”. ELA distanced itself from the pact arguing that “it does not guarantee the CPI and that the insufficient improvements will only affect a minority.”
interviewed in Euskadi Irratithe general secretary of ELA, Mitxel Lakuntzahave insisted that “the majority of metal workers in Araba will not receive a raise” because “the increase will not be applied to real wages, but to the tables.”
As he explained, in most companies in the sector “thanks to the workers’ struggles” salaries today are above the amounts shown in the salary tables. “The signed increase will not be applied to real wages and most workers will not even see a euro anymore. ELA is asking that the increase be applied to real wages,” he said.
Likewise, he assured that if the strike calls for this week had not been called off, “more improvements for the workers would have been achieved”. In this sense, he criticized the attitude of the UGT and LAB unions, which have decided not to continue the demonstrations.
Lankuntza has also referred to the lease demanded by the Basque government to deal with inflation and has asked Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu “what is the lease”. “In practice, the income pact would be what the employers propose at the negotiating table: a 3% increase if the CPI is above 10%. Is that the pact Urkullu is talking about?”
When asked about the draft education law, the general secretary of ELA was highly critical of the content of the text for being “too general” and trying to “maintain the current system”. “It does not represent anything new: it renounces a new proprietary curriculum, it does not develop linguistic immersion and it does not address the problem of segregation. It also does not propose any measures to end agency workers,” he added. ready. With this scenario, ELA has shown its willingness to negotiate further with the Basque government, but does not rule out demonstrations “if the situation does not change”.
Finally, on the eve of the general policy plenary meeting scheduled for Thursday in the Basque parliament, the leader of the ELA union has again called for a broad country agreement on taxes. As he has denounced, there is “only one deal in progress today, a big pact not to change anything.” “There is an objective fact: while the profits of Ibex companies are the highest in history, the impoverishment of citizens is accelerating. Government intervention is needed, left-wing measures. The Basque and Navarrese governments are currently on the right of the IMF”, concluded it he.
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