Unions mobilized this Thursday across Spain to demand the reduction of working hours at 37.5 hours per week. UGT and CCOO request a “real” negotiation which, they claim, employers are blocking.
Last Tuesday, the ministry, unions and employers met. “No matter how rushed we are in the negotiation process, a parliamentary procedure is missing that if we get your honors to side with the citizens and vote in favor of the reduction, it will be a short procedure, but we can also take a different position and the procedure can be a little longer”, a- he recognized the Secretary of Union Action and Employment of CCOO, Mari Cruz Vicente Vicente, this Tuesday afternoon at the end of the meeting.
Of course, both Vicente and the deputy general secretary of union policy of the UGT, Fernando Luján, indicated that they will fight to reach an agreement before the end of the year because they will not allow the reduction of the working time remains “in a dead situation”. end” because “ “They sold her to us as the star of the legislature.” It is for this reason that Luján asked the government to take a position on this measure, since the negotiations have been going on for more than nine months, although a tripartite agreement is desirable.
In this sense, they highlighted that time recording and digital disconnection are other important issues within the framework of the measure, since more than 6 million weekly overtime hours continue to be generated, of which 2.6 millions are neither paid nor appreciated, which represents “theft”. ” by companies worth 3 billion euros in unlisted hours. This is why the two members of the union have once again requested the commitment of the CEOE to reach an agreement that is beneficial for the labor market and for workers.
This Thursday Thousands attended the rallies summoned to the employer’s headquarters. Hundreds of people gathered in Valladolid in front of the CEOE and Cepyme bloc at the negotiating tables to reduce the working day from the current 40 hours per week to 37.5 hours by 2025 without reducing wages at a time when the country “can allow it”. for economic growth”, and to warn that if the negotiations do not move forward, “there will be conflicts, a revolution in the world of work and an occupation of the streets by the trade union movement”.
The general secretary of the UGT Castilla y León, Faustino Temprano, indicated in statements to the media a few minutes before the start of the rally that the negotiations on this subject “are not moving forward”, while explaining that the next meeting is planned for next October 11 and the employers “as they see that they are not making profits, they are hindering the negotiation”.
It is for this reason that the union leader warned that the organizations would “keep fighting in the streets”just as they did with the reform of work, pensions and the interprofessional minimum wage, because it is time to acquire this improvement of work.
