This Wednesday they have posted a three-hour strike. The mobilizations will continue on January 18 with a two-hour strike and a demonstration. The works council has denounced that the staff has been stuck with the expired and terminated agreement since the end of 2019.
Euskaraz irakurri: Petronorreko langileek 88 orduko lanuzteak egingo dituzte urtarrilean hitzarmena eskatzeko
Workers at the Petronor refinery, in Muskiz (Bizkaia), have begun mobilizations to demand the agreement and this Wednesday posted a three-hour strike after approving a schedule of mobilizations at the meeting, which would include carrying out 88 hours strike during the month from January.
During today’s strike, held between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. on the call of the works council, some of the workforce concentrated on the entrances to the refinery behind a banner reading “In the fight for the covenant!”.
The mobilizations will continue on January 18 with a two-hour strike and a concentration in front of the Labor Inspectorate headquarters in Bilbao, the “admissibility” of which they question despite the “thousands of overtime” being worked at the company. . They were made in 2022 “30,000 Extra Hours”as specified by the UGT representative Joseba Allende.
PETRONOR BORROKAN
1st day strike for a fair distribution of profits
Staff cuts and increases below CPI are not reasonable in a company with a historic record of profits (€389 million in the first nine months of 2022)#petronorrekolangileakborrokan pic.twitter.com/JnWaaWXecL
— CCOO Petronor (@CCOOPetronor) January 11, 2023
The works council has denounced that the workforce, consisting of a thousand employees, has been with the expired and terminated agreement since the end of 2019.
To date there have been twelve meetings from the negotiating table, with no expectation that an eventual agreement is imminent.
The works council has criticized in a note that the management, which applied an ERTE in 2021, achieved “the highest number of distributions in its history”, with €305 million in the first nine months of 2022, while staff are on a frozen salary.
The union delegation, demanding wage increases that guarantee the preservation of workers’ purchasing power, has indicated that the company’s proposal, which proposes a five-year agreement, assumes a “reduction” of the same, since “it tabulates the CPI” .
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Source: EITB
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