The preliminary agreement was reached by the successful bidder Biobide and the unions UGT, CCOO and USO at the negotiating table, said ELA, which rejected the agreed economic content.
The company has awarded the urban public transport service Bilbobus and the majority of the union representation has reached a provisional agreement that allows the suspension of the strike supported by the workers. see you next Thursdaywhen the staff will vote on what was agreed in the meeting.
As confirmed by factory committee sources, Bilbobus bus frequencies will return to normal this Wednesday. normality after the preliminary agreement on working conditions, at least until next Thursday, when the Bilbobus staff, who have been on indefinite strike since April 9, will decide in a meeting whether or not to accept it.
The preliminary agreement was concluded by the successful bidder Biobide and the trade unions UGT, CCOO and USE at the negotiating table, said ELA, which rejected the agreed economic content.
As the Abertzale union denounces in a note: “purchasing power is not guaranteed and the salary increases take as a reference the increases set by Madrid in the public sector.”
For ALS this is “unacceptableas its own bargaining framework is neutralized and salaries are subject to state laws.
The union, which has also criticized the fact that “no measures are being taken to put an end to the partial contracts that make the workforce insecure”, has warned that “it will continue to fight for the to guarantee the purchasing power of the working population and to defend the framework of negotiation”.
On the contrary, CCOO will encourage its members to vote in favor of the preliminary agreement in the workers’ meetings to be held next Thursday, because, in its opinion, it “maintains the purchasing power of the working population”.
Sources from CCOO Euskadi have explained that “although there is no reference to an explicit CPI, the salary increases correspond to the CPI of the years preceding the agreement”, “some details” of which are still being drawn up.
The union acknowledges that it is not ‘satisfied’ with the content of the preliminary agreement, but indicates that it ‘at least’ does not seem ‘too bad’.
Source: EITB
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