The seventh and final meeting between Tubacex’s management and workers’ representatives was held on Wednesday, as on Thursday, 15 October, the deadline for multinational leaders to position the works council on the subject is over. The company has put two options on the table: Dismiss 150 workers or reduce wages, with the aim of saving in one way or another EUR 10 million.

In the face of this situation, the trade unions at the Wednesday meeting held the same position as before: they refused to assess both options on the grounds that there had been no negotiation. Workers' representatives explained that what the company is suffering from is "a temporary crisis" and stressed that management had not presented any industrial plan at the meetings they had. “They have tried to reach an agreement through taxation and have put on the table the threat of a Employment Regulation Dossier,” the ELA Trade Union Department said.

The management, for its part, has announced that it will bring to the management board of the business group what has been spoken at the meetings and that it will be this body that decides what to do.

The meeting on the new employment dossier, on Thursday

A new meeting will be held on Thursday between the trade unions and the management of the company. In fact, the company intends to launch a new temporary employment regulation dossier, which will meet to negotiate with the Vitoria-Gasteiz Executive.

On Friday, the company called for a day of mobilizations, as reported by the Basque Department of Security. They have called for a strike between six and ten in the afternoon and a mobilization in Amurrio from 19:00 a.m. in front of the City Hall.