Taking into account “the latest movements”, the union has stated that it is not “optimistic” about this meeting, which is why it considers that “it becomes even more necessary for us Ertzainas to demonstrate in Bilbao on the 16th.”
The Union Euspel has announced that the Security Department of the Basque Government has summoned you for the next Thursday to a meeting to continue the negotiation of the working conditions of the Ertzaintza, a call about which the union is not “optimistic.” For this reason, he has called to attend the demonstration on October 16 in Bilbao to “make it clear that they want a minimum agreement that only serves to falsely close” the labor conflict.
Among his “negotiation commitments”, Euspel has reiterated that, after “more than a decade of loss of purchasing power, with 44 of the 50 Basque police officers with a higher salary than the ertzainas”, “a salary equalization” is necessary that place the regional police “at the top of that list”, given that it is the one with “the greatest powers in all of Euskadi and the least paid.”
Regarding the Regulatory Agreement, Euspel sees it necessary to “renew it point by point, without ignoring any”, based on both its agreement platform and the proposals that have been sent to them through the Ertzainas en Lucha platform.
For both agreements, he warned, “it is essential that the Department stops saving from the Ertzaintza budget the 45 million that it now takes to we don’t know where.”
Finally, he has criticized that Security has informed him that a maximum of two representatives of the union may attend the meeting and has assured that he will bring to the negotiation “whoever he deems necessary, just as the Department does.”
Last Friday, the vice president and Security Councilor, Josu Erkoreka, and the Ertzaintza ErNE, ESAN and SiPE unions held a meeting of more than three hours to try to redirect the internal conflict that broke out a few months ago. At the end of the meeting, sources from the union centers acknowledged that there are “common points” with the Department regarding the analysis of the current situation in the Ertzaintza, although they still believe that the positions “are very far apart” regarding the labor conflict.
Source: Eitb
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