The strike was called by ELA, which denounces that the working conditions achieved and the provincial negotiations are “at stake”.
Workers in the textile and footwear sectors of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia this Tuesday carried out the second day of strike called by ELA this week to demand that “Euskal Herria be excluded from the territorial and functional scope of the state agreement.”
The union demands that in the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre the current provincial agreements continue to apply and not the first state agreement concluded, as it explained, by the employers’ association Arte, made up of the major brands in the textile sector. promotion since July 2023. . ELA has warned that, if the state agreement were to be applied, the employment conditions reached as well as “the negotiations themselves” on the provincial agreements “would be at stake.”
Therefore, their intention is to continue the mobilizations “until the employers’ association Arte includes neither the CAV nor Navarra in the state agreement.”
On this new strike day, for which about 5,000 people have been called up in Bizkaia and about 2,500 in Gipuzkoa, a demonstration was called in Bilbao and a subsequent rally in Plaza Circular, and a protest in San Martín market in San Sebastián.
In Gipuzkoa they will strike again on January 7, in the middle of the sales campaign.
Source: EITB
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