Negotiations on the first state agreement for major textile and shoe trade chains begin this Monday, and the ELA union has warned that the initiative will mean “the loss of labor rights” for the workers of Euskadi and Navarre.
ELA has a strike day in the large textile chains against the state agreement being promoted and in defense of the negotiating framework of the provincial agreements. That same day, a rally was organized in Madrid together with the Galician trade union CIG and the Aragonese OSTA.
In a statement, the Basque trade union explains that Monday the negotiations on the first state agreement of large retail chains in the textile and shoe trade. “Behind the initiative is Inditex, which together with other large chains such as H&M, Primark, Mango, among others, forms the employers’ organization ARTE and wants to nationalize employment conditions with this agreement,” he emphasized.
ELA has denounced that “the claim of the promoter of the negotiations is to centralize collective bargaining through a single state agreement, thethe omission of female employees from provincial agreements who serve in these great chains”.
As warned, this initiative will lead to “the loss of labor rights” for the textile workers of Euskadi and Navarre, as the provincial agreements “include much more favorable working conditions, with shorter working hours and salaries well above many provincial state areas, where the inter-professional minimum wage is very reasonable”.
Source: EITB
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