ELA has announced that if workers’ demands are not met, the strike will begin on December 20. It also affects beach cleaning staff, selective waste collection or facilities such as landfills, incinerators or sewage.
Employees of street cleaning and waste collection in Gipuzkoa have announced that they have a Indefinite strike from December 20 in light of the ‘blockade of employers in the negotiation of the agreement’.
In total, the strike affects approximately 1,500 employees who also work in the region beach cleaning, selective waste collection or facilities such as landfills, incinerators or sewage.
DE Athe majority union with 60.78% of representation, made this announcement in a statement denouncing the “blocking of negotiations” by the employers’ associations Aselip and Serbitzu after “eleven months and thirteen meetings”.
The union has demanded “respect and decent conditions for a sector that does one of the most thankless jobs” so that “streets and beaches are not the closest thing to a landfill.” “We demand the dignity of current working conditions, which necessarily involves improving the application of the aid contract, guaranteeing purchasing power (at least the increase in the CPI) and adjusting the occupational categories,” ELA has noted, among other things .
He has said that in the event that workers’ demands are not met, an indefinite strike will begin across Gipuzkoa on December 20, starting at 10 p.m.
For this reason, and “given the seriousness of the situation”, ELA has requested that the involvement of municipal councils and associations so that they are “active agents in promoting a change in employers’ attitudes.”
The workers called to strike took part in a strike this Saturday demonstration in Donostia-San Sebastiáncalled by ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGTfor protest against the negotiations on the agreement.
Source: EITB
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