UGT-Euskadi’s general secretary, Raúl Arza, has called on the company to be “flexible” as he believes an agreement is “possible and necessary”.
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The general secretary of UGT-Euskadi Raúl Arza hopes that the management of Mercedes-Vitoria will urgent call of the collective bargaining table, although, he assures, no answer yet He said that in an interview on Radio Euskadi on Friday.
The workers of the factory are called today, Friday, for a new day of strike, the third in the last three days and the sixth in the last three weeks. The appeal was made by the trade unions ELA, LAB and ESK, while the UGT, CCOO, Ekintza and PIM have dropped the strike, to facilitating in dialogue
In this sense, Arza has called on the company to “flexible”, because he believes an agreement is “possible and necessary” to secure the project for the future. He has also assured that his union, UGT, will continue working“because we want an agreement,” and said he hopes the company will sit down at the negotiating table these days. “The issue is important and we ask for that gesture: that the sixth night disappear and resume the negotiations that we left on the 5th.”
Asked by the two union blocs formed after analyzing the offer the company has put on the table, with various salary and flexibility improvements, Arza assures that, in the event that they agreement with the company, their union will not sign anything that has not been ratified by the workers: “They have the last word. We hope it has the majority of the workers.” In this sense, he recalled that the factory in Vitoria-Gasteiz has grown over the past 20 years with agreements led by UGT.
Arza explains that the agreement should include improvements in the salary conditions and flexibility On this last point, the secretary of the UGT-Euskadi emphasizes that “what is there is enough” and that it must be negotiated. Likewise, he denounces that there is a lack of foresight in the factory, which is why they demand that the flexibility requested by management be negotiated and financially compensated.
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Source: EITB
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