The unions continued the strike on December 19 after failing to make a stand with the Basque government

The majority of public unions have accused the Basque government of speaking in ‘general’ terms about the working conditions of civil servants and of taking measures that are ‘contrary’ to their ‘supposed willingness to negotiate’. Thus, the trade union centers have reiterated their willingness to continue the public sector strike on December 19.

This Monday, the General Board of the Public Service met, in its first call after the last day of strikes in the sector October 25. Before the meeting, a rally was held in front of the Basque government headquarters to demand their demands.

After the meeting, the six unions (ELA, LAB, CCOO, Steilas, Satse and ESK) published a statement in which they assured that the Basque government rejected their proposals “despite the fact that these demands were massively supported” in the said strike day.

Afterwards, they recall, the Basque government showed its willingness to negotiate, but today it has shown again that “it intends to limit itself to the playing field created by the public labor law, which has been rejected by all unions .”

They have criticized the executive’s refusal to implement the law pension partial advances to the entire workforce, “the pension bonuses included in the agreements are still not applied” and maintains the reduction of Itzarri’s EPSV.

Moreover, they regret that he continues to make decisions that ‘perpetuate’ the pace of the crisis temporality above 40% and continues to accept the replacement rates “imposed by Madrid”.

Concerning the wagethe six unions assure that the government has expressed its willingness to develop a variable remuneration system that could exclude half of the workforce, temporary workers, from its application, with the sole aim of not addressing a salary increase that would undermine the purchasing power of the employees would recover. all workers.