With the “uncertainty” of what their future work will be hanging over their heads, with the night shift from this Wednesday, October 9 to Thursday, October 10, Bimbo workers in Valladolid began a series of strike days planned against the closure of the factory in the industrial zone of San Cristóbal.
To come, subject to the progress of negotiations with the multinational, eight additional days marked on the calendar to stop activity as a protest against the plans of the company, which is not reversing its decision to close the factory history of Valladolid. in a time frame as urgent as between the end of 2024 and February 2025.
October 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 These are the other strike days marked in red at Bimbo Valladolid, which coincide with the month of negotiation of the ERE (Employment Regulation File) registered last week at the Territorial Labor Office of Valladolid by the multinational.
Meanwhile, in these negotiations, the series of contacts between the Works Council and company officials emerged from the table this Wednesday without more progress than what had been noted the day before, in which Bimbo showed his desire for reindustrialization plan for the factory where they no longer want to produce Donuts, Donettes, Tigretón or Bollycao.
Thus, the president of the Bimbo works committee in Valladolid, Félix Fernández, regretted that the company had not given details of this reindustrialization plan beyond the confirmation of the contract with the LHH company for this work . In addition, he questioned the maintenance of “uncertainty” on the social level that he proposed for the workers of a factory which has 166 direct jobs and around forty more through subcontractors. Without figures, he censored, nor more details on possible early retirements, transfers, compensation…
Workers are influencing the “viability” of the plant and criticizing that the company remains “committed” that its future plans include closure.
