2023-08-29 07:50:37
Sevilla
ESTHER GMEZ
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Updated Tuesday, August 29, 2023 – 07:50
The workers of the Malaga art gallery call protests for five days at the end of September, on the eve of the opening of the exhibition ‘El eco de Picasso’
Striking employees with ‘Picassian’ masks in front of the Malaga museum. Jess Mérida Contact
They have taken to the streets with Picassian masks, they have handed out brochures in English and Spanish, they have gathered, they have carried out three strikes… But nothing has worked. For this reason, the workers of the Picasso Museum in Malaga have said enough is enough and, after 10 months of negotiations In order to approve their collective agreement without any progress, they have called a five-day strike on the eve of the inauguration of the great exhibition that the Malaga museum is going to house: The Picasso Echo, scheduled for next October 2, coinciding with the acts for the 50th anniversary of the death of the painter from Malaga.
The workers of the Picasso Museum Málaga They have announced a full-time strike for five days in a row from September 18 to 22 to unblock and advance in the negotiation of their agreement. They complain that they are the lowest paid in all of Spain among similar art galleries, despite the fact that, currently, the Picasso Museum in Malaga is among the 10 most visited art centers in the country and among the 100 internationally. Luxury museum, sale workersdenounce the employees on the banners with which they have taken to the streets this summer.
Before beginning the negotiation of the agreement last autumn, the company committee of the Malaga museum carried out a comparative study with agreements of 10 other museum institutionssuch as the Museo Carmen Thyssen Mlaga and Museo Thyssen Madrid, Fundacin Mir, BBAA Bilbao and Museu Picasso Barcelona, among others, proving that salary and working conditions at the Mlaga Museum were much lower than those of other institutions.
The called strike could seriously hinder the opening of the exhibition Picasso’s echo Scheduled for October 2, since the call could even be extended to the week of September 25 to 29, if the company continues to be stubborn in not respecting the current agreement and in not assessing the improvements for the fifth that the workers request, such such as working hours, flexible hours, conciliation and the sense of belonging to the institution, warns the works council.
The stoppages could therefore affect El eco de Picasso, the exhibition that will be held in Malaga until March 31, 2024, works by about thirty authors influenced by the Malaga painter which are now exhibited at the Picasso Museum in Paris, the Pompidou, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, the BBVA Collection, the Karel Appel Foundation, The Easton Foundation Collection in New York and the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation. As published by the BOE on August 4, the thirty sculptures, drawings and paintings that will be exhibited in Malaga are guaranteed by the State for almost 139 million euros.
The Picasso Museum in Malaga participates in the international tribute Picasso celebration. 1973-2023 and commemorates its twentieth anniversary next October, events that could be tarnished if an understanding is not reached, points out the company committee. This museum has an annual budget of almost 12 million euros, of which the Junta de Andaluca contributes almost five million. It is governed by a foundation and has the president of the Andalusian Government, Juanma Moreno, as honorary president of the board of trustees, along with Christine Ruiz-Picasso.
Sources from the Andalusian Councilor for Tourism, Culture and Sports, whose head Arturo Bernal is a natural patron of the foundation that governs the museum, told EL MUNDO yesterday that the Board can do little in the workers’ conflict because it does not participate directly in the management. It can only urge the parties to sit down and negotiate.
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