ELA has rejected the agreement reached in Madrid and has called for the conditions of Basque workers to be "decided here"
The union calls on MPs in Vitoria to support public services by increasing budget lines and taking steps to determine the working conditions of public employees here.
The ELA union demonstrated this morning outside the Basque Parliament to demand that the working conditions of Basque public workers be decided "here" and not in Madrid. The agreement concluded yesterday betweenthe Spanish Government and the majority trade unions in the State on public salaries, which agreed to an 11% increase in pay over the next four years (2025-2028), has not been approved.
The General Secretary of the Federation of Public Services of ELA, Igor Izagirre, has denounced that "the Basque Government once again wants to make available to Madrid the working conditions of 115,000 public employees", turning its back on the Basque trade unions. "Parliamentarians must not accept the wage increase that has been agreed in Madrid at the expense of the majority unions."
According to ELA, "once again, they value the loss of purchasing power and an agreement that has no connection with the CPI: although the loss of purchasing power has been 8.6% by 2022-2025, the agreement has been 2.5%, and 1.5% by 2026, when the CPI is currently 3.1%. "
They have also taken advantage of the to make other accusations: on the one hand, they have condemned the fact that 42% of government workers have a temporary contract and, on the other hand, they have explained that workloads, lack of substitutions and excessive bureaucratization have serious consequences for the health of workers.
They have also stressed that the Basque language remains a secondary language.
"With these working conditions it is impossible for workers to guarantee a quality service and put an end to the loss of purchasing power of workers," Eizagirre said.
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