ELA has announced that if the workers’ demands are not met, the strike will begin on December 20. It also affects beach cleaning workers, selective waste collection or facilities such as landfills, incinerator or sewage.
Workers of street cleaning and garbage collection in Gipuzkoa have announced that they will start a indefinite strike starting December 20 in the face of the “blockade of the employers in the negotiation of the agreement.”
In total, the strike affects about 1,500 employees who also work in the beach cleaning, selective waste collection or facilities such as landfills, incinerator or sewage.
THE Athe majority union with 60.78% of representation, made this announcement in a statement in which it denounces the “blocking of negotiations” by the Aselip and Serbitzu employers’ associations after “eleven months and thirteen meetings.”
The union has demanded “respect and decent conditions for a sector that carries out one of the most thankless jobs” so that the “streets and beaches are not the closest thing to a landfill.” “We demand the dignification of the current working conditions, which necessarily involve improving the application of the relief contract, guaranteeing purchasing power (at least the increase in the CPI), and adapting the professional categories”, among other improvements, ELA has noted.
He has said that, in the event that the demands raised by the workers are not met, on December 20, starting at 10 p.m., an indefinite strike will begin throughout Gipuzkoa.
For this reason, and “given the seriousness of the situation”, ELA has requested the involvement of town councils and associations so that they are “active agents in promoting a change in the attitude of employers.”
The workers called to strike participated this Saturday in a demonstration in Donostia-San Sebastiánsummoned by ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGTfor protest the agreement negotiations.
Source: Eitb
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