2024-07-05 16:34:23
The Vodafone Spain trade union representation (UGT, CC OO and STC) presented this Friday a multitude of alternative proposals to the one proposed by the company at the fifth meeting of the negotiation table of the employment regulation file (ERE). The demands of the unions to greatly reduce the number of layoffs that the company, in the hands of the British fund Zegona since last June, estimated in its final proposal at Thursday’s meeting at 1,098 departures, one hundred less than the initial offer.
The representatives of the workers also request a guarantee of employment until December 31, 2026, and compensation worked 67 days per year without limit on monthly payments plus a linear contribution of 4,166 euros. They also require a completely voluntary departure, without the veto that the company would allow, and a plan to help resettlement for twelve months (Vodafone proposes).
“The company is clear that it will not be able to convince the shareholder to withdraw this ERE, despite all the assessments provided by the union representation,” CC OO reported in a statement, “the majority no answer or with an erroneous answer. .””. The STC union explained in another note that the company is committed to studying the union’s proposals and giving an answer at the next scheduled meeting, next Monday the 8th There would be two more sessions of the table, the 11th and the July 15. before the trade deadline expires on July 17.
At the same time, within the mobilization calendar requested by the unions, two 24-hour strike days are planned for July 9 and 11 and a new two-hour strike on July 10. Similarly, there will be rallies in front of the Ministry of Digital Transformation on Monday from 12 to 2 pm, and on July 11 at the same time in front of the Ministry of Labour.
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Precisely, the Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has referred to Vodafone as an example to avoid “a company with benefits that should not be able to go to ERE”. “I want to tell you that I do not completely agree that a company that has profits can resort to an employment control file,” said Díaz while participating in the closing of several UGT conferences this Friday in Madrid.
Therefore, he recalled that the Government is working on the Industrial Law so that situations of this type are not allowed, although he recognized that sometimes governments are “reluctant” to convert what is already common sense into “common sense”. , that’s why he asked UGT to join this cause. “No one understands how a company that makes profits can rely on a collective employment control file,” said Díaz.
In the same way, the leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, asked the Government to make Vodafone “responsible” for the rights of its workers, assuming that the ERE is “a committed financial piracy operation not only by Vodafone”, but by a fund investment (in reference to Zegona), and it is criticized that the operation “leaves stranded workers to clean up the accounts of the company.” He argued that this situation should be cause for reflection, and he defended that public control of strategic economic sectors must be “gained”, and that Spain has a public company in every strategic sector of the economy.
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