The pact signed with CCOO, LAB, ESK and UGT includes a 24% salary increase and a reduction in working hours.
The unions CCOO, LAB, ESK and UGT and the employers in the sector have signed the social intervention agreement in Bizkaia, which includes a 24% salary increase and a working day of 1,564 hours per year (13 less than the previous one).
In a statement, LAB congratulated workers in the sector “for the collective work done” to achieve this. He similarly described the signing of the agreement as “a historic step” for a sector that has been “feminized” and works with “people that society excludes from all decision-making centers.”
The ESK union has congratulated workers in the sector for their “consistency” and participation in the past two and a half years of struggle, which it said concluded with the signing of “a great agreement”.
The agreement is valid between 2022 and 2025 and includes, among other things, a 100% supplement for temporary incapacity for work from the first day for the first 12 months and 90% up to 15 months, as well as the replacement of absent employees from the first day.
ELA, for its part, did not sign this agreement, which affects more than 2,000 people. According to the union, the preliminary agreement reached at the time meant a loss of purchasing power for workers in the sector.
Source: EITB
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