- Faced with the company's "unwillingness" to negotiate "minimum conditions", workers have announced further mobilisations, as they have indicated. An indefinite strike has been called in the automotive sector at the end of the year.
On Monday, the fourth strike event was held at the company Elecnor Telecommunications (Bizkaia). The workers held two concentrations to denounce their work situation: the first, at 09:00 in front of the Lakua Telephone Building and the second, at noon, in front of the Telefónica store of Plaza General Loma.
As the LAB trade union explained in a statement, as the day progresses they decided to "raise the tone of the protests". In this sense, they have called a fifth day of strike for the next 22 November in the Basque Country and Navarre.
It is a question of forcing the company to take the decision "to redirect the situation and negotiate decent conditions for workers". If the situation does not change, they have assured that they will start an indefinite strike from 9 December.
In recent years, workers have denounced that the "policy of fear" has prevailed in the company: with unpaid overtime, unpaid guards, frozen salaries, discrimination, among others.
For its part, the company claims "economic problems" to explain the situation in which the workers find themselves. However, according to the workers’ representation, made up of LAB and ELA, in 2018 the company distributed profits of 28 million euros.
"Coordinated Responses" beyond Araba
As the LAB trade union explained, representatives of the Telefónica subcontractors and the ELA, ESK and LAB trade unions themselves, working in Araba, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Navarra, met for the first time in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Various proposals have been put in place and a start has been made on "preparing coordinated responses", which will soon be announced in the Basque Parliament. "The greed of a few cannot be built on workers' rights under any circumstances," the LAB trade union said in a statement.