THE UNIONS ANNOUNCE A CALENDAR OF MOBILIZATIONS AFTER THE BLOCKAGE OF THE AGREEMENT OF THE CANNING INDUSTRY

The last two meetings of the negotiating table of the canning agreement have been a real cold water for the sector after failing to reach an agreement. The positions are opposed and the union anger grows after the last round of negotiations. From CC.OO., they consider urgent to launch a calendar of protests.

For its part, the UGT-FICA union calls the employer “irresponsible” to return to the starting point of negotiations after several days of meetings. In addition, the union does not rule out a call for an indefinite strike throughout the sector, “after the failure of negotiations and the intransigence of the employer.

In the opinion of Comisiones Obreras, the proposal made by Anfaco is “completely far from the just demands that workers need to leave the precariousness, low wages, temporality, the gap or wage discrimination suffered by women in the sector”.

The CIG union has joined and has called for demonstrations at the headquarters of several canning companies by the lack of agreement with employers to sign a new collective agreement. According to the workers’ representatives, the employers refuse to accept most of the trade union proposals, especially those referring to breaking the wage gap between men and women or the proposed wage increase that the employers’ side intends to place below the real CPI.