ELA, Steilas, CCOO, LAB and UGT are suing that negotiations on the agreement have been blocked. That is why they have called for support for the strike and to participate in the demonstration in Bilbao, which will start at 11:00 from Gran Vía 85 and end in Plaza de Arriaga.
ELA, Steilas, CCOO, LAB and UGT called strike day in the educational centers of social initiative in the CAV for tomorrow, April 25 with the aim of denouncing that negotiations on the new agreement have been blocked.
for what they call “employer immobility”, the unions continue their mobilizations. As reported through a joint note, during the 13 meetings held to negotiate the new agreement, the employers “did not show no will of negotiation”. In addition, the power stations denounced that they even raised “kickback” with respect to any part of the content obtained in the previous agreement.
These are the main advancements unions: measures to ease the workload, improvements for the most feminized and precarious sectors, wage increases based on the CPI, measures to preserve jobs and improvements to vocational training. The Basque language plans, the equality plans and the plans to tackle occupational health are also in the crosshairs of the unions.
A few days before announcing the day of the strike, they presented a letter to the employers represented at the negotiating table, Kristau Eskola and AICE-IZEA, in which the unions expressed their willingness to “reach consensus” and “negotiate and they invited them to make a “substantive proposal” to advance negotiations on the agreement, which affects 9,000 workers.
In this sense, the same sources have indicated that today “there has been no movement or response” from the employers, and they have received no notice “any proposal”.
Thus, faced with “the immobility and lack” of employers’ proposals, the unions have reaffirmed the need to strike and called on the workers of the sector to support and participate in the strike. demonstration in Bilbaowhich departs at 11:00 AM from Gran Vía 85 and ends at Plaza de Arriaga.
LAB sees “base” for a deal
The Basque government’s education ministry announced last week that it will convene the sector’s unions “as soon as possible” in search of a consensus, after LAB deemed there is “a basis” for a agreement about working conditions.
LAB then stated in a statement that they have held talks with the Ministry of Education in recent weeks, in which they believe “the basis has been laid for an agreement that improves working conditions” for teaching staff.
Source: EITB
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