2023-10-16 14:49:22
Updated Monday, October 16, 2023 – 14:49
CCOO, UGT and FINE demand from AEB, CECA and Unacc-Asemecc the “early” opening of the negotiation of the agreements that expire next December 31
Demonstration called by CCOO and the UGT in Plaza España. Javi MartinezEl MUNDO
Unions and employers AEB y CZECH begin between the end of October and the beginning of November the negotiation of the collective agreements for ‘banking’ and ‘savings’, two months before the end of the validity of both agreements, as reported by the workers’ organizations.
CCOO, UGT y FINE have been since last June 22 demanding from AEB, CECA and Unacc-Asemecc the “early” opening of the negotiation of the agreements that expire next December 31.
Subsequently, in the first half of October, they proceeded, jointly, to denounce and urge the negotiation of the ‘banking’ and ‘savings’ agreementsmaterializing with the calls made by AEB and CECA for the constitution of the respective negotiating tables on October 31, for ‘banking’, and for The 2nd of Novemberin the case of the ‘savings’ agreement.
In the case of the rural savings bank agreement, the unions have not yet received a call, as FINE has informed Europa Press.
The three unions affirm that they will work to establish a joint platform in the negotiation of each agreement. Their priorities will be to recover purchasing power for employees in the sector in such a way that includes a salary increase of between 17% and 23% in three years.
Specifically, by 2023 They ask for additional compensation measures for loss of purchasing power with an increase in the current tables of the 4% and effects from October 1. By 2024, they will ask for an increase in tables of the 5%While for 2025 y 2026 the increase will be 4%. Furthermore, in those three years, they include the possibility of an increase in the 1% depending on the IPC and from another 1% according to the benefits of the sector.
Guarantees of application of the agreed increases and non-recurring payments will also be requested from the entire workforce, without applying compensation, absorption or similar mechanisms.
The unions want to ask for an “urgent” limitation on the interest rates on loans granted to employeeswith a limit of 1% until October 1, 2024a measure that could be expanded.
In this sense, they will request that minimum conditions and ‘caps’ on interest rates be included in the agreement, the commitment to negotiate to improve said minimums in each company and the commitment to improve or sign agreements with the Tax agency on remuneration in kind.
To improve the work environment, they will ask at the negotiating tables for measures that act on it.under commercial pressure, workloads, staffing, psychosocial risks and the consideration of illnesses psychological as professionals.
The unions will also work on joint proposals on career matters professional, employment, occupational health, equality, digital rights and other aspects.
“We believe it is very important to start the negotiation of the agreements in advance and we are committed to a short process in time, which urgently balances the contrast between record sector profits and loss of purchasing power of their workforces in the face of the impact of CPI inflation and interest rates, and that allows us to reach agreements before holding shareholder meetings in the first quarter of 2024″, the unions conclude.
The president of FINE, Elena Daz, has stated that the increases agreed with employers at the end of 2022 for this year have been a containment measure “in the face of the bleeding of purchasing power that is occurring”, although “it is not enough.” “The sector is risking its reputation if it does not distribute, also among its employees, the million-dollar benefits they are obtaining from this price crisis,” he added.
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