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Galan (Iberdrola) believes it is "essential" to increase investment in electricity grids
Amid the mobilization of the workforce, ELA has criticized the loss of purchasing power of workers and the attitude of the company, which has lamented that after 16 months of negotiating the new collective agreement, "it cannot be more regressive."
ELA has denounced that there has been a campaign "orchestrated" by the Tubos Reunidos company and supported by employers
Mitxel Lakuntza, general secretary of the ELA union, has condemned the company's "deplorable management" in recent years, with "170 million debt generated by shareholders."
ELA, LAB and Steilas will take to the streets in Bilbao to defend the demand for the Euskera
They have decided to mobilize "in the face of the judicial, political and trade union offensive against the right to work and live in Basque".
The ELA Secretary General has called on the President to "position clearly" on the call for the establishment of his own minimum wage
Trade unions will claim their own SMI, pensions and "decent" wages or housing rights during the May 1 mobilizations
ELA and LAB will take to the streets separately, as will ESK and LSB-USO, while CCOO and UGT will mobilize together.
The TSJPV has overturned the dismissal of 59 workers from the JM school in Bilbao
In a statement, the ELA union has stated that the Supreme Court's admission of the appeal against collective dismissal shows that the merger with the failed Jesuitinas school and the dismissal of the workers was a "dark and poorly managed" process that caused "the concern of the families and the diversion of enrolment of the students" until, in the end, "the final closure of the school"; "all with the approval and complicity of the Basque Government", according to the union.
Trade unions denounce the employers' use of absenteeism in the mobilizations of Occupational Health Day
ELA, LAB and Steilas have called a demonstration for 9 May in Bilbao for "the right to live and work in Basque"
In the face of the "judicial, political and trade union onslaught", they demand equality between the demands of the Basque Country and Spanish in public employment.
Absenteeism to "divert the focus" on occupational health ELA accuses employers of using it
The union will hold an event on 28 April in Bilbao under the slogan "Absenteeism in the Basque Country is 0%" on the occasion of International Day of Occupational Health.
ELA and LAB report that the decree on urgent housing measures benefits owners
With regard to the benchmark rental price index in high-voltage areas, the Power Stations believe that "it helps to consolidate the rise in prices . Although there is a limit to increases, prices can continue to rise," they said.
ELA, LAB and ESK Trade unions will challenge the ERE of Tubos Reunidos
Another Friday, the workers of Tubos Reunidos have demonstrated in Amurrio and the members of the works council have expressed their disappointment at the decision of the Labour Inspectorate. Three unions, ELA, LAB and ESK, have already announced that they will challenge the ERE next week.
The protest called for Saturday by public health platforms has received broad support
more than 60 groups have joined the call. The demonstrations will depart at 12:00 in Bilbao (from Sacred Heart Square) and Vitoria (from Bilbao Square), and at 17:00 in Donostia (from Boulevard).
UEMA has presented 'Wake up', a dynamic response to the 'decline' of the airspaces
18 agents from different fields have joined the initiative and made "concrete commitments to keep the Basque areas alive", including Bankoa Abanca, Fagor, Kutxabank or the Basque Football Federation.
Confebask will not attend tomorrow's meeting between ELA and LAB to negotiate his own minimum wage
The employers argue that the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country ruled that negotiating this matter was "illegal." The assembly was scheduled to take place tomorrow, a week after the general strike of the 17M.
ELA and LAB believe that the working class and the union force have emerged "strengthened and closer to achieving their goal"
Yesterday's general strike was a "show of strength," according to the LAB and ELA unions
In interviews with Radio Euskadi and Euskadi Irratia, the secretaries-general of LAB and ELA have stated that yesterday's demonstrations were "very massive, with up to 135,000 people gathered." "We have emerged strengthened," said LAB General Coordinator Garbiñe Aranburu.
The convening unions stress that the general strike for their own minimum wage is being "widely monitored"
ELA, LAB, Steilas, Etxalde and Hiru have pointed out that the activity is much lower than that of a regular working day and that traffic density has fallen significantly.
Mitxel Lakuntza claims that the general strike is "shared" in society and supported by the working class
In an interview with Euskadi Irratia, ELA's Secretary General, Mitxel Lakuntza, explained that the unions had to go on strike because the Basque Parliament had closed the door to the popular legislative initiative and the Confebask employers had refused to negotiate.
The convening unions expect the general strike of March 17 to be "successful"
ELA, LAB, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde have pointed out that the support for the strike is being "very broad" and that the working committees of 1,750 companies and hundreds of social partners have already joined the 24-hour unemployment.
