Given the situation of the negotiation block, the trade unions ELA, LAB and ESK registered five additional strike days for the days 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 June. The committee does not rule out an “indefinite strike” in the near future, in case their demands are not met.
Gorabide’s team will start first of the next Monday five days of unemployment called for next Friday, June 16, and they are not ruling out an indefinite strike, given the “zero willingness” to negotiate shown by both the company and the Bizkaia Provincial Council, as the “ultimate guarantor” of the provision of the service.
Labor unions DE A, LABORATORY And ESKas members of Gorabide’s intercentric committee, institutional and business leaders have accused “guilty for the current state of the conflict”.
In the opinion of these union centers, the “irresponsibilityof the formal institution, which maintains the blockade, is “very serious” and shows, in their opinion, “how little they give and have given to those responsible for the quality of the public services they hold” and , they continue In their joint writing, “they care much less about the plight of the people we care for and that of their families.”
More than 20 days ago, the unions sent Gorabide’s manager, Txema Francoa new proposal to facilitate the unlocking of the negotiation, but the address of the company “He has not responded and has not met with the committee”.
For ELA, LAB and ESK, the solution consists of an agreement that guarantees the restoration of purchasing power, since, as they have indicated, from January 1, 2023, the workforce will be a loss of purchasing power of their salaries of 13.49%.
Among their demands, the unions are asking for “the Abolition of any contracts without a calendar imposing a semi-slavery on one third of the workers”. reconciliation measures to improve the conditions of a working population in which the majority is made up of women.
For this reason, and given this situation of blockade in the negotiations, the three unions have registered these five additional strike days for the days June 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16.
During those five days, staff have one on Monday the 12th manifestation from EITB headquarters, on Tuesday the 13th they represent a symbolic burial in front of the Foral Palace and on Wednesday the 14th they present a interpellation at the headquarters of the Bizkaia General Assemblies in Bilbao.
Finally, on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th, they hold one camping and a mobilization continued in front of the headquarters of the Gorabide company itself, located on Bizkaia Square.
If after these mobilizations “the irresponsibility of both the Gorabide Directorate and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia persists”, the commission does not rule out “taking more resounding steps in their fight and will consider launching a indefinite strike“.
Source: EITB
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