ELA has explained that the negotiations have been blocked. The employer does not agree with their main claims: salary increase according to the CPI, not working Saturday afternoons in the summer and a bonus for the online service.
workers of the general trade, leather and footwear and textiles of Bizkaia they have manifested convened this Sunday in Bilbao by ALS and LAB to demand improvements in their agreements and avoid the strike called for on April 3, 4 and 5.
In statements to the media before the start of the march, ELA business manager, Marije Fernández, recalled that negotiations have been stalled and that the agreements, which cover some 8,500 employees, have not been updated since 2007. leather and footwear, since 2014 textiles and since 2018 general.
He has acknowledged that some progress has been made in the latest negotiations, but has stated that he continues to do so The employer does not accept their main claims: some wage increases According to the CPI, the do not work Saturday afternoons in the summer and a bonus for online service before the change that the trade is experiencing.
Fernández has assured that at the moment there is an “absolute” rejection of this bonus, something he has said he does not understand, as it has been signed “with total normality” in both Álava and Gipuzkoa.
Did you remember that a saleswoman of leather and shoes earns 1012 euros gross. “It doesn’t even reach the Minimum Interprofessional Wage”, he denounced: “Today we want employers to reconsider the situation, otherwise we will intensify mobilizations and we have already declared a strike for the eve of Easter.”
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