Trenasa workers do not accept 110 redundancies and start an indefinite strike
- On Friday, the management of Trenasa de Castejón (Navarra) and the Works Council have set up the negotiating table for the Ere to dismiss the 110 workers announced. On the same day, workers have begun an indefinite strike in protest at the company’s decision.
The workers came to the plant at 7 a.m. and the company representatives waited for the meeting with the committee: Two representatives of CCOO and one of USE. CAF representatives have received whistles at the entrance of the company.
The chairman of the works council, Miguel Ángel Molina, of CCOO, said that "the plant is viable" and asked the management to suspend the ere. The company has announced that it will clear its entire workforce at the first meeting between the company and the workers to negotiate the dossier. The company has informed the workers’ representation of the closure dossier of the plant, but the lehendakari has said that it does not accept it.
In this regard, he has denounced that when he signed the ere three months ago, he was already clear that there was work for 2021 and that nothing could be done. As he explained, "some of these workloads will not go to other CAF plants, we know that they are looking for external plants to divert that work," he added.
Molina is firm: "They want to negotiate the best possible solution for the workers, but I am not prepared to start negotiating that, I want to remove the dossier and I want 110 families to continue with our work," he added.
The City Council of the Ribera has approved a ten-point institutional declaration rejecting "the CAF approach", which uses Trenasa as a "negotiating weapon" for "Beasain, Irun, Zaragoza and Madrid". She has asked President María Chivite and Counsellor Manu Ayerdi to "intervene with all their resources" and "if the factory is finally closed, CAF will refund the aid received so far in full".
Last Thursday, the Minister of Economic and Business Development of the Government of Navarra, Manu Ayerdi, showed his "deep concern" about the announcement of the closure of the plant and said that the Executive is in contact with the company to see if "there is the least possibility of finding a solution".
According to the News Journal, at the end of the meeting there have been moments of tension at the doors of the plant. A group of workers had concentrated on denouncing the eviction announcement and one of the company’s attorneys had stopped leaving the facility.
The moment can be seen in the following tweet from the LAB syndicate:
The company's lawyer has come out in the street in the workers' shouts.
— LAB Nafarroa (@LABnafarroa) October 2, 2020
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