LAB and CCOO were critical of the agreement and will not sign it. Both factories believe that more improvements were possible.
The employer Adegi and the trade unions ALS and UGT Today they sign the extension of the Gipuzkoa metal deal, which will be valid for four years and will be generally in effect, affecting more than 30,000 workers in the area.
The preliminary agreement signed on May 11 between Adegi and the two unions, which have a majority at the negotiating table, includes 5% pay increase for this year the CPI plus 0.7% for 2024 and the CPI for 2025 and 2026, as proposed by the employers at the last meeting of the negotiating table.
Adegi assured in a statement that after “five months of negotiations and hard work without conflicts” it has been possible to reach a “good agreement” for both companies and employees in an environment of “increasing uncertainty and volatility”.
So much LABORATORY if CCOO They will not sign the pact. LAB believes that ELA and UGT have “ended” their negotiations after “buying Adegi’s first proposal” by which “they have left the Gipuzkoa metalworkers without the possibility of a better deal”. Along the same lines, CCOO believes that while the pact “contains positive elements”, it could have been “broadened” because it “had union strength”.
Source: EITB
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