Bimbo opens to “negotiate” transfers and compensation in its closure plan

Although the positions remain “castle” on the part of the company to the extent that its plans for its Bimbo factory in Valladolid involve a closure and workers on the “viability” of the factory, yesterday’s double meeting at least made some minimal progress. And after meeting at Serla (Labor Relations Department) and getting up in less than an hour without agreement, at the meeting to address the ERE (Employment Regulation File) which already weighs on the 166 workers, the representatives of the signature “yes” they put on the table the “will” of the bakery “to propose alternatives”. Some measures would involve transfers, compensation… although they are still “unspecified”, explained the president of the works council, Félix Fernández. Of course, he warned, to analyze these options during the meetings scheduled for October 8 and 9, worker representatives will demand that they “specify how far they are prepared to negotiate.”

The workers, they emphasize, “do not share” the reasons given by Bimbo for the closure (“organizational and productive” to “concentrate” production) and consider that the “decrease” in production is in reality due to the “transfer “to other factories. .of the multinational. It is for this reason that they influence their defense of the “viability” of the factory.

In addition, the Committee requires that Bimbo “establish a plan for reindustrialization of the factory, as a condition for evaluating its proposals.” A framework which, they demand from the workers, “also implies the maintenance of activity, jobs and the industrial fabric of the city”. “Although the production is different from the current one”, they estimate after the “unexpected” announcement of their closure on September 18, hit by “cold water”. Since then, in the factory in the industrial zone of San Cristóbal, the atmosphere “is tough”, the president of the works council recognized yesterday, because the slowness of the negotiations “affects” the morale of the workers of a factory which has 166 employees. direct employees and another 40 through subcontractors. On Saturday, they will take to the streets from 11 a.m. and after demonstrating in an assembly, they will analyze the situation and the possible calendar of mobilizations.