Strikes in women’s football, calling for decent working conditions
- On the one hand, employers. In other words, the Association of Clubs (ACFF), which brings together almost all the female teams of first division in Spain. On the other hand, the trade unions, headed by the Association of Footballers (AFE). The negotiations to agree on what would be the first collective agreement do not bear fruit, and trade unions may be called on to strike.
The ACFF Club Association brings together all major teams, with the exception of Athletic, Barcelona, Tacon. Trade unions demand that mid-day players have an annual minimum wage of EUR 12,000, which is 75% of the minimum wage of EUR 16,000 that the agreement could determine for full-time gamblers. The Association of Clubs, for its part, has reduced this percentage to 50%, which would mean leaving the salary of football players at EUR 8,000.
Partiality is the main source of divergence between the two sides. On other points, however, progress has been made. Maternity leave, 30-day leave, measures to combat sexual harassment... The journalist of the newspaper AS, Alfredo Matilla, has listed in this article all the points of the negotiating process.
Employers and trade unions have been negotiating the collective agreement for a year, with no results for the time being. On Tuesday there was the eleventh meeting and also the mini-meeting. It therefore appears that there is an increasing possibility of other trade unions at the negotiating table, such as ON Futbolists and UGT, calling for a strike, although at the moment there is nothing clear. The AFE trade union, for example, has not confirmed that it will support the strike in the Islamic State.
The Association of Clubs has rejected a possible call for strike and has pointed out that the convention should be a tool to strengthen the project and improve the conditions of the players and not a source of confrontation. "Football players' conditions will improve, as has been happening in recent years, to the extent that the championship earns revenue."
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