The Basque government assures that the linear salary increase demanded by the ertzainas is “illegal”.

Deputy Hendakari and Security Council member, Josu Erkoreka, stressed that his department has “never left the table” to negotiate with the Ertzaintza, and “looks forward to the return” of the unions to this forum, which remains “in place” to resume conversations “as soon as they say they’re ready” to do so, without “necessarily starting with a general linear salary increase” which is “illegal”..

For example, Erkoreka has ensured that the general linear salary increase demanded by the ertzainas is “illegal and unsustainable”. In this sense, he has assured that an increase from 1,100 euros to 8,000 assets would have an impact of 125 million euros and “would be challenged by the state”.

Interviewed in the program “Boulevard” of Radio Euskadi Erkoreka referred to the labor dispute in the Ertzaintza, after last Friday the trade unions ErNE, Esan, Euspel and SiPE decided to “rise” from the negotiating table to the that the ministry had called them .

The adviser stressed that “those who have broken continuity in the negotiations have been the unions themselves” because the administration has “never left the table”.

In this regard, he regretted that at the negotiating table last Friday, the unions “didn’t even want to talk” about the 37 measures proposed by the department and “refused to discuss anything that was not a general linear salary increase for the entire workforce”.

On the other hand, when asked about the possibility that the mobilizations announced in the Ertzaintza coincide with the Tour, he assured that he does not “think” that “in the Ertzaintza, which was followed by legal principles and by a maximum rule of commitment, of maximum dedication to public service, there are movements that want to hinder, prevent or make difficult a sporting event of this dimension” that creates “so many illusions” in Euskadi.