They warn that “the intensity of the steps” they will take will depend on the attitude of employers. They have not ruled out striking again and will study how to take legal action.
The unions ELA, Steilas, CCOO, LAB and UGT have decided starts mobilizations in the Social Initiative Education sector to demand compliance with the agreement that ended the strike last February. Likewise, at the next negotiating table they will study how “the route of legal claims can be activated” if the employers “do not make proposals”.
The representatives of the five unions have offered a joint appearance in Bilbao denouncing this The employers “do not have the will” to comply with the agreement signed on February 5. In his opinion, “they have only created obstacles to the fulfillment of the agreement” and plan to “delay its application and create new conditions different from those signed.”
As they have emphasized, the agreement is in force ‘from the moment of signature, as expressly stated in the tenth point’, but three months later ‘the agreement is still not being complied with’ by the employers, despite the fact that the workers “have adhered to this and from the day of the signing they left the strike.”
The unions have decided in this context resume mobilizationsimmediately concentration next Thursday, May 16, in front of Kristau Eskola’s headquartersthe sector’s main employer, in Donostia, and another on the 22nd in schools.
In addition, will study “the legal route”. to activate the route of legal claims in case the employers do not make proposals for the next negotiating table”, scheduled for May 29, to “begin to comply with the agreement in the signed terms.”
The unions explained that the meetings to implement the content of the agreement and incorporate it into the agreement “had to be convened” by them because the employers “did not take the step” and, despite agreeing on a meeting calendar, “Two have been suspended.”
On the other hand, they reported that the payment of salaries for 2024 in the agreed amounts has not yet started, nor has the start date of payment been set, and they have warned that the agreed salary tables have been presented “as provisional and subject to government approval and funding”.
They have also criticized employers for proposing “a restrictive way” to apply the law reduction in working hours agreed in the academic year 2023-2024 and which also “create obstacles to the reduction of teaching hours agreed for the teaching staff is included in the articles of the agreement”.
Similarly, they have warned that they intend to ‘disregard the new regime of seniority recognition and compensation in the EU moving process to guarantee employment and even jeopardize the application of the redeployment process itself with the excuse of possible legal changes in case of partial retirement”.
ELA, Steilas, CCOO, LAB and UGT have assured that, “in light of this position of the employers’ organizations, the unions cannot remain silent, and neither can we. We have a signed agreement, they have to stick to it and we are going to defend it.”
In this sense, regarding the possibility that another strike could take place in the sector, the unions have assured that “they do not rule anything out”, but what they would like is that “the employers take note” and not need to ‘rethink’ how to end conflict. “Because if we sign an agreement and they don’t even adhere to it, we will have to look at what the most appropriate mechanisms are,” they said.
Source: EITB
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