The committee is waiting to hear what management will say on Tuesday to decide whether or not to participate in the strike that ELA, LAB and ESK have called for Thursday and Friday. Wednesday’s strike continues, coinciding with Lehendakari’s meeting with Mercede-Benz management in Germany.
Euskaraz irakurri: Gasteizko Mercedes-Benzeko batzordeak asteartean erabakiko du ostegun eta ostiraleko grebak egin ala ez
The works council of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria-Gasteiz will ultimately decide on this Tuesday, after meeting with management from the factory, if it satisfies in a unitary manner the calls for strike from ELA, LAB and ESK for the Thursday and the Friday, that would be added to the strike scheduled for next Wednesday, which already has the approval of the entire committee.
The representative body of the Mercedes-Benz factory staff (comprising ELA, LAB, ESK, CC.OO. UGT, Ekintza and PIM) planned to decide this Monday whether to support the strike call of ELA, LAB, ESK for Thursday . and Friday.
However, and as reported to Europa Press by the CC.OO spokesperson. in the committee, Roberto Pastor, the decision has been postponed to know what the management proposes to them in the meeting that both parties will hold next Tuesday.
Pastor has expressed the hope that, just as progress has been made in some respects, those in charge of the Alava plant are willing to make a “leap” in terms of flexibility, for example, allowing staff to think about them.” enough”.
The trade unions of Mercedes-Benz have their mobilizations after learning that the company intends condition for an investment of more than 1.2 billion euros in the factory for the staff to accept an increase in their flexibility labor.
Likewise, some of the trade union organizations represented on the committee have warned that those in charge of the multinational also plan to link this investment to a cut in workers’ salaries.
The staff has been mobilizing for two weeks. The first strike, announced on June 22, was widely followed. And on June 29, thousands of people took part in the demonstration in support of the workers of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
the lehendakari Inigo Urkullu and the Minister of Economic Development of the Basque Government, Arantxa Tapia, will meet this Wednesday 6th July in Germany with management of the multinational. As Tapia indicated on June 23, the purpose of the trip to Germany is “to talk about the problems of the workforce, but especially about new investment, support and public-private partnerships”.
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Source: EITB
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