De Lehendakari meets with the president of Mercedes Benz in Stuttgart to try to secure the EUR 1.2 billion investment for the Vitoria plant that the multinational is considering in the Alava plant if a set of working conditions are met.
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One day after factory management mercedes benz victoria and the unions have resumed negotiations after three days of strike, the lehendakari, Inigo Urkullumeet the top managers of this car company in Stuttgart, Germany today.
In his performance yesterday, the spokesman for the Basque government, Bingen Zupiria, separated the visit from the labor dispute and assured that the trip has been closed since March 1, so “it has nothing to do with the labor dispute”. The meeting, as he clarified, is part of the ongoing relationship that the Gasteiz Executive maintains with Mercedes Benz and with its projects to “ensure continuity in Vitoria and provide the area as an opportunity for new investment”. For example, the Lehendakari will convey to the executives of Mercedes Benz that the Basque Country is an “attractive environment”, so that they will implement the announced investment of 1,200 million for the factory that the multinational has in Vitoria.
Zupiria stressed that the industrial fabric of the autonomous community has a large number of auto parts manufacturers and “significant” public and private investments in innovation and research, meaning “sufficient conditions to attract an investment like the one proposed by Mercedes “.
For her part, interviewed on Radio Euskadi, Arantxa Tapia, Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment of the Basque government, yesterday asked Mercedes Vitoria and the unions to admit “to bring positions closer together leading to an agreement”. “We understand the complexity, but both sides have to concede to bring the positions closer together that lead to an agreement,” he said.
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The Mercedes Benz Vitoria company and committee resumed discussions yesterday about the collective labor agreement, which has been negotiated for six months. Management put on the table an offer, with a range of economic improvements and flexibility to renew working conditions until 2026, that was received unevenly by unions who have acted in two separate blocs during the negotiation process over the past few months. Thus, after the meeting, the majority of the working committee of Mercedes de Vitoria, UGT, CCOO, PIM and Ekintza decided to postpone the strike from next Wednesday in order to continue negotiations with the company, while ELA, LAB and ESK this unemployment and also those on Thursday and Friday, which they had called without the support of the rest of the exchanges.
The company offered, among other things, a salary increase of 5% in 2022 and a fifteenth benefit of 750 euros, although it maintains the sixth night of the week in its flexibility proposal.
The works council and management will meet again tomorrow.
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