After gathering in front of the Foral Palace, they intensified their mobilizations with a 24-hour lockdown on May 13 ahead of the strike day.
LAB and ESK declared a strike day on May 14 at the Social Intervention of Bizkaia due to “the lack of desire for dialogue” of the employers’ associations Gizardatz and Geroan, which continue “without responding to their proposal to reopen the renewal negotiations. the industry’s agreement and those asking them to “abandon their boycott position.” Both unions announced this intensification of their mobilizations during a rally in front of the Foral Palace in Bilbao, ahead of the march they led to the union headquarters. the Labor Relations Council where they registered a joint proposal on April 16. LAB and ESK have demanded Gizardatz and Geroan “will to negotiate”, stop “blocking the agreement” and return negotiations to “a signing space” of agreement.
As they regret, a month after their proposal, the employers’ organizations “have not made any assessment of its content or of the real possibilities for agreement opened up by this document.” LAB and ESK have denounced that Provincial Councils and municipal councils ‘look the other way’ at the situation of ‘more than 4,000 employees of Social Intervention”, while according to him it is precisely the authorities that should provide this public service directly.
Source: EITB
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