Bimbo employees called nine days of strike throughout the month of October on the occasion of the announcement of the closure of the company’s factory in Valladolid where this Saturday its workers took to the streets to demand an industrial plan that allows the viability of the factory.
This was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment, Leticia García, who indicated that the Works Council of Bimbo informed its ministry, as labor authority, that it will begin a nine-day strike schedule on October 9.
The director regretted that the company continued to have “many reluctance” to sit down to negotiate with the Counciland demanded that the multinational “reconsider” and sit down “to look for an industrial solution that could exist and that would be viable,” reports Ical.
Leticia García recalled that she requested this meeting from the Anclaje Foundation to address the different mechanisms that the regional government makes available to them to seek an industrial solution before layoffs and closure of facilities.
Finally, the advisor emphasized that the Commission, the Government and the Valladolid City Council are seeking this result. industrial solution This is happening because Bimbo agrees to sit down so that the activity is maintained and not “arrive at the regrettable situation of layoffs”.
At street level, the city of Valladolid today joined Bimbo workers’ “call for help” for the company to maintain the factory it owns in the city through a reindustrialization plan that the Works Council requires from the company, as well as to sit down with the Anchor Foundation to know and negotiate the entry of a potential investor.
The concentration, called by CCOO and UGT, began after 11 a.m. from the Plaza de Colón de Valladolid and although a few minutes before the start the people present at the starting point were around two hundred, other citizens then joined to defend this situation. “Bimbo should not close” because the factory not only has “economic viability from the beginning”, but also the productive and organizational reasons cited by the company for closing its Valladolid factory “we have dismantled them day after day during the meetings that we have had with them”, declared the president of the Works Council, Félix Fernández.
“There must be continuity,” said Fernández, hence the alleged pessimism that exists in the staff due to the lack of alternatives offered by the company to the company itself, which “He is not making progress in the negotiations and is not clearly expressing his intentions”given that “it only announced the closure but did not put the moving or compensation letters on the table, as in other factories”.
The secretary general of CCOO Industry de Castilla y León, Gonzalo Díez, expressed in the same sense, “convinced” that “the capacities that Bimbo has can be used, the people who work and the talents generated can be used, and if we wants to maintain a city and a province capable of resisting future crises, it must rely on strengthen the industrial fabric“. This is why he declared that “a company of this caliber, which is perhaps not sufficient for a large city but for Valladolid it is an important part of employment, we must fight to maintain it and prevent multinationals from making economic decisions again and not “Betting on a product and the possibilities that this factory offers”.
Support from the city council
He Valladolid Town Hall also supported the workers of Bimbo this Saturday with the presence of several councilors from the PP, PSOE and Valladolid Take the Word present at the demonstration, which was also attended by the mayor, Jesús Julio Carnero, who asked the company ” to sit down to work, through the Anclaje Foundation, on an industrial employment solution in the city of Valladolid for each of the 200 affected families.
