The trade union majority has collected more than 100,000 signatures in favour of their own minimum wage and will bring them to Parliament in August
The trade unions ELA, LAB, ESK, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde have described the campaign as a 'tremendous success' and have closed the collection of signatures before the deadline so that 'the Basque Parliament can demand the competence of the minimum wage as soon as possible'.
The unions ELA, LAB, ESK, Steilas, Etxalde and Hiru have gathered more than 100,000 signatures in support of a popular legislative initiative aimed at "amending the status of workers and establishing their own Interprofessional Minimum Wage in Hego Euskal Herria".
Representatives of the six trade unions appeared this Wednesday at a press conference in Bilbao, where they announced that the deadline for collecting signatures had been closed three months before the legal deadline, so that 'the Basque Parliament can demand the competence of the minimum wage as soon as possible'.
They also urge the political parties of\u00A0 Navarra to process a bill in their Parliament.
Trade union representatives have stressed that "three months have been enough" to exceed the threshold of 100,000 signatures. Iniciativa has been described asa "huge success" because the working class has "massively" supported it and "met the challenge".
The signatures collected 21 ofAugust will be presented to the Basque Parliament and, from then on, the processwill enter another phase . According to the unions, the political parties "will be able to move from words to deeds." If they really have the will for a more dignified minimum wage, they will be called upon to support the initiative.
Similarly, the trade unions havecriticisedthe position of the Basque Government and Confebask.
On the one hand, they believe that the Basque Government 'demonstrates the need for a minimum wage of its own', but it does so 'from a restrictive point of view', both in terms of its' area of influence 'and in terms of its' amount '. On the other hand, they denounce the fact that Confebask intends to bring this debate to the' social dialogue table with issues such as absenteeism '.
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