2023-06-09 18:41:08
Deloitte will be in charge of carrying out internal investigation “to determine the possible origin of the alleged irregularities” that have been reported in its logistics center in Lliçà d’Amunt (eastern Vallès), as EL PERIÓDICO has reported.
Company officials have allegedly tried to rigging union elections in that company center, the first ones to be held, boycotting the candidacy made by the UGT of Catalonia. According to documents to which EL PERIÓDICO has had access, company positions interviewed one by one at least 365 workers to ask them which option they were going to vote in the next elections, set for June 19. And they made a list with the preferences of each one, noting how some changed their minds and affirmed that they would support another union after said interview. A change of opinion that obeys, as denounced from the UGT, to the fact that during said conversations coercion and harassment occurred to people who are not in favor of the candidacy preferred by the company.
Faced with this controversy, the CCOO has announced that it is withdrawing from the union elections in Mango, where they were also trying to draw up their own list, and that they will join any complaint process against them that UGT decides to end up specifying, which You have already filed a complaint with the Labor Inspectorate of the province of Barcelona and its legal office is finalizing two lawsuits, one by way of social and another by criminal.
condemns
As this newspaper announced, the company has been quick to state that it “totally condemns any behavior that threatens trade union freedom.” At the same time, it distances itself from any practices along these lines by stating that “the management of the company has neither promoted nor has it been aware at any time of the preparation of lists on the union position of its workers”. And he adds that, if the facts are confirmed, “the necessary measures will be taken in all areas.”
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On April 19, the UGT of Catalonia promoted the first union elections in the history of Mango, constituting its own list in Lliçà d’Amunt, where some 800 people work. The plant gave the company prior notice, as required by law, of its intention to hold union elections. These can then be attended by any union that manages to put together its own candidacy with employees of the center. At that time, as explained by the union, different hierarchical superiors began to individually address a large part of the workforce to ask them about their union option in the face of the elections.
Mango is one of the largest textile companies in Spain, it has some 6,059 employees throughout the country, including stores and logistics centers and is owned by Isak Andic. None of its workplaces is unionized and all lack a works council, as recognized by the company itself. A lack of legal representation of workers that is unusual in companies of this size. One of the many consequences of not having a works council is the absence of a registered equality plan, something mandatory by law in Spain for any company with more than 250 workers.
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