The management of Tubacex has decided not to readmit the 129 workers who were dismissed from their jobs. The workers at the Amurrio and Llodio plants will continue to pay, but they will not be allowed to return to their jobs. At the meeting held this Tuesday with the Works Council, the management stated that it would not implement the judgment given by the TSJPV.

The company, which has so far had workers in Ere (ere), has decided in two judgments that the High Court of Justice must re-admit them. Tubacex’s leadership, however, will act against this decision and appeal to the Supreme Court to rule in favour of employment regulation in Congress.

The workers in Aiaraldea have been on strike for more than 150 days in protest at collective dismissal. They have described Tuesday’s meeting as a ‘missed opportunity’ and have ensured that they will not abandon the strike until the judgment given by the courts of justice is complied with. The Berria medium has taken up what is said in the documents of the two Algerian companies. In it, they demanded that Tubacex accept the 129 workers under the same conditions and pay their wages from the suspension of contracts.

The Works Council will meet today to take decisions and to mark the roadmap that will be launched from now on. At 18:30 in the afternoon, a demonstration will be held in Laudio, in which a call for participation has also been made.

ITP Aero case

Tubacex workers are in the same situation as the aeronautical company ITP Aero PCB in May. The company put 87 workers at the Barakaldo and Sestao plants into employment regulation, but the courts annulled the regulation and felt that they would re-admit their workers. The management, for its part, did not let them return to their jobs.

Both PCBs and Tubacex argued the same reason for redundancies: They stated that they had “structural” economic losses. The courts, for their part, gave the unions the right to argue that this was a timely situation caused by the pandemic and the reduction of production.