The LAB union is committed to continuing the mobilizations and resuming negotiations to guarantee a pay increase in line with the CPI. Next Monday, the provisional agreement on the agreement will be concluded by the board of directors and the majority of the works council will be put to a vote.
The LAB union has employees of Mercedes-Benz in Vitoria-Gasteiz. requested vote no in the referendum met this Monday at the factory on the preliminary agreement agreement reached between the management and the union majority, and has chosen to continue the mobilizations and resume negotiations to guarantee a pay increase in line with the CPI.
LAB is one of the unions, together with ELA and ESK, which oppose the preliminary agreement between the management and the UGT, CCOO, Ekintza and PIM who have a majority in the committee.
In a statement, LAB suggested to staff to vote against the deal tomorrow address “new mobilizations” and continue negotiations to guarantee the IPC, “humanize the new working model” and agree on objective criteria for accepting and converting open-ended contracts.
He has criticized that Mercedes management does not want to guarantee the purchasing power of the staff when it’s a company “with tens of millions of profits” that comes out to “62 million in 2021”. He has assured that management wants to “blackmail the workforce” by proposing investments in exchange for a loss of purchasing power.
He also has the “press” who receives the template by the company, “some trade unions” and Basque institutions and the barriers imposed on some union representatives to carry out their union work “making it difficult to provide information to staff”.
Voting before agreement
The factory personal vote takes place from 10:15 AM to 1:00 PM in the morning shift, from 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM in the afternoon shift, and from 12:30 PM to 2:15 AM. at night, while it takes place in the office building from 09:00 to 14:00.
Each cost center is assigned a voting table and they can vote all active staff members.
To vote personally it is necessary present proof of identity, passport, driver’s license, NIE or employee card. Employees can access envelopes and ballots through the chain of command, at factory entrances and at the polling stations themselves.
Operators also have the option to: electronic voting, but the deadline to vote electronically passed this Friday at 2 p.m. Applications after that time will be rejected. According to union sources, 559 employees registered to vote electronically, about 10%.
The electronic voting hours on the Appsamblea platform are from 12:00 AM to midnight, including Mondays. there will be alone two voice options in both formats: AGREE YES or AGREE NO. The results are expected on Tuesday between 2.30 pm and 3 pm.
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