2023-05-26 12:59:59
The negotiation of the Michelin agreement gives another twist. After the concentration on May 18 and the “last” proposal submitted this Tuesday by the Spanish management of the multinational, the ELA, LAB, CGT and ESK unions have decided today to take the step of calling strikes at the Vitoria plant.
This has been agreed by these four plants after having held a meeting this Friday morning with the entire committee of the Álava factory in which the joint call for strikes has been rejected. CC OO, the majority union, and UGT have already issued positive assessments of the company’s latest proposal, which included clauses linked to the evolution of the CPI. Despite having rejected the strikes raised today, these two plants have not yet made a decision on whether or not to stamp their signature on Michelin’s latest offer.
However, in the absence of an agreement, the unions dissatisfied with the strikes have decided to call demonstrations “for the agreement we deserve.” The strike days will begin next Wednesday, May 31, affecting three production shifts, and will also cover June 2, 3, and 5. In addition, on Tuesday the 30th there will be a rally outside the factory and a demonstration that will start at 6:30 p.m. from Plaza Bilbao. All this to request “the recovery of purchasing power and the CPI”, in addition to a “reduction of working hours” and the “suppression of Team Building”.
Already last Tuesday ELA and ESK issued a joint statement in which they described the latest wage increase proposed by Michelin as “miserable”.
The distribution of the salary increases proposed by the multinational was as follows: 5% in 2023, 3% in 2024, 2% in 2025 and another 2% in 2026. An offer that went from a global calculation of 10 to 12 % along with a clause that would allow salaries to be raised by an extra 2% every two years if the CPI exceeds the proposed increases in employee payrolls and as long as Michelin’s results allow it.
In the document released to his affiliation -entitled “Pen for sale to sign Michelin collective agreement”-, ELA and ESK criticized this Tuesday precisely this double link of the increases, which they said had “very little to do with the CPI and yes, if Michelin gets out of the Bibendums ». The text ended with a “More mobilizations now!” which is now completed.
CCOO and UGT, against
Octavio Álvaro, spokesman for Comisiones Obreras, has expressed his disagreement with the decision of the four central strikers in statements to this newspaper: «Decisions have been made again outside the inter-centre committee. They have not respected the word of the intercentres, which happened to wait the time that each section needed to make their internal decisions.
UGT, for its part, will not support the mobilizations -neither the strikes nor the concentrations- while waiting to meet its affiliates next Wednesday the 31st to make a decision on what to do in relation to the latest proposal. From the head office, Íñigo López has criticized the decision, of which he has assured that “it does not make much sense” until the different union assemblies have met to issue their opinions on the latest offer from the management.
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