Only EH Bildu and Sumar attend the union call for Hegoalde to decide on his public sector job

The bilateral meetings that the unions ELA, LAB, CCOO, ESK and Steilas convened on Monday with the Basque political forces to argue that Hegoalde would decide from Madrid on salaries and employment in the public sector without ‘vetos’ have only counted. with the help of EH Bildu and Sumar.

The PNV has refused to attend and Podemos, PP and PSE-EE have “not even” responded to the invitation, as stated at a press conference by the union representatives.

During the meetings with EH Bildu and Sumar, the centers have a proposal in the form of an amendment to be presented in the Congress of Deputies. If approved, it would allow for the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre decide the conditions of its government employees determining from its institutions the salaries and employment conditions of its civil servants, who number more than 150,000 people.

Igor Izagirre (ELA) has stressed that for more than ten years the Spanish Government has decided, through the Budget Law or other similar laws, to engage in collective bargaining on salaries and employment in the various public sectors, and has asked the political parties not to normalize the situation veto and that they “use their votes to defend self-government and negotiate the needs of the public sector in Euskadi.”

Izagirre doubts the interest of the rest of the political parties who did not attend the meeting, although he insists that they will send them the proposal the current 40% of temporary employment, as well as privatizations, which, as he said, represents 120,000 jobs , and improve salaries, “which have been reduced by 20% in the last ten years”.