In a first assessment, the unions indicated that the strike is “almost total” in the media and public transport, that it has a “majority” in education and that in Osakidetza the minimum services will “fully” determine control over the labor market . strike.
The first of the two days of strikes declared in the public sector of the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) will have a “very broad” follow-up, as highlighted by the calling unions early in the morning in a joint note sent to the media has been released.
In these first hours and according to the centers, the continuation of the strike by sectors is as follows: “almost total” in the media and public transport, “majority” in non-university and university public education, “very extensive” at municipal and provincial levels, “important” but “unequal” in the General Government and in the administration of justice, and “minor” in the administrative sphere of the state. Meanwhile, in Osakidetza, the minimum services will “completely” determine the follow-up to the strike.
ALS, LAB, CC. OO., Steilas, ESK and other unions, with the exception of UGT, have called for this strike today, October 25, at 150,000 employees of the public sector to request improvements to the Working Conditions and the quality of service.
In this way they demand “from the Basque government, the provincial councils and the municipal councils Guarantee He purchasing power And consolidate public employment until the temporality is reduced to 8%”.
The trade union centers denounce the “deterioration” of the public sector in Euskadi, which is a ‘transversal situation’ affecting ‘all areas of public employment, increasingly privatized“.
They also demand this with the strike calls agree on salaries in Euskadi and public sector needs; the recovery of lost purchasing power, which amounted to 20% over the past ten years; the reduction of temporary employment rates from the current 40% to 8%; the end of privatizations, and plans to guarantee the ‘real’ Basque language.
Minimal services
The minimum services planned by the Basque government for the public sector strike called this Wednesday provide that First concern work is done as on Saturday, the doors are open in education schools and there is a director and a teacher, and in the transport that 30% of the services circulate.
The minimum service order, signed by Vice President Idoia Mendia, regulates what must remain in force on Wednesday.
Source: EITB

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