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The LAB union has opened 204 labour disputes in 2024-2025, 75 of them with strikes
According to the annual report on trade union action presented by the union, 61% of the conflicts have focused on collective bargaining and the defence of public services. Territorially, the largest number of conflicts have taken place in Bizkaia, but in terms of the number of workers, most of the fighting has taken place in Álava.
Vitoria's gardeners have protested to the government and the company after four months of strike
The gardeners of Vitoria-Gasteiz demonstrated on Monday in front of the Basque Government and Enviser, the company contracted by the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz for the maintenance of the gardens, denouncing that they have already been on strike for four months to demand their own agreement and wage improvements, and that no progress has been made in the negotiation.
ELA and LAB have ensured that the increase in the minimum wage proposed by Torres would affect only 10,000 workers
They believe that the proposal does not take into account the profits made by companies in recent years, nor the productivity generated by their workforce, and therefore does not aim at 'social cohesion or fair distribution of wealth'.
A worker dies falling from a roof in Vitoria
The Basque Government envisages a margin of up to €1,385 to negotiate the minimum wage in the ACV
The Department of Economy, Employment and Employment proposes a wage gap after analysing the socio-economic reality of the Basque Country. The study has been strongly criticized by ELA and LAB and calls for an interprofessional minimum wage of its own for the ACV.
Vitoria-Gasteiz gardeners have continued their strike after the unions rejected the Labor Department's offer
The unions called an assembly for the workers to give their opinion on this proposal in a vote, and finally ELA, LAB and ESK have reached an agreement to reject the offer and have a vote by the workers.
LAB has refused to provide collateral for the purchase of housing and said it is "throwing gas into the fire" of prices
The union has concentrated in front of the PNV headquarters in Bilbao to demand the withdrawal of the decree approved by the Basque Government. It has argued that another housing policy is possible; it believes that the public park for social rent must be mobilized, not only by building new housing, but also by mobilising existing housing.
The unions believe that the government's proposal to end the Vitoria-Gasteiz gardener strike is insufficient
The Basque Government has submitted to the trade unions and the management of Enviser a proposal to end the indefinite strike of workers, which envisages a wage increase of CPI + 2.2% for this year, 2% for 2026 and 2027 and 2250 euros for 2028. Enviser has accepted this approach, while ESK and LAB consider the increase "insufficient", although they have committed themselves to transferring the proposal to internal bodies.
75% of absences from work in the ACV are due to temporary incapacity and not absenteeism, according to an LAB report
The union denounces that "mass fraud" is not absenteeism, but the declaration of occupational diseases as a common disease.
The Health Bureau will meet on Friday with public-private cooperation as the main obstacle
On Friday, the Basque Government and Councillor Alberto Martínez are seeking an agreement with a "broad consensus." However, EH Bildu has called for further discussion to "untie the knots." Summary and LAB have announced that they will not support a pact involving private companies.
LAB will not support the Health Pact for maintaining contracts with private health
The LAB union has announced that it will not support the Health Pact or attend tomorrow's meeting for maintaining its "dependence on the private sector."
The San Sebastian Social Work strike has been called after the pre-agreement was concluded
The agreement has been reached after months of numerous mobilizations and 12 strike days. The labor dispute began at the beginning of the year.
Public education will stop today to demand compliance with the agreement signed in May
The LAB union calls the teachers of the Basque public school to partial stops from 10:30 to 12:30. They denounce the lack of resources to implement the agreement reached with the Department of Education.
Gipuzkoa's nursing homes are today on strike and unemployment to protest the "blockade" of negotiations
There will be news: the Freedom Fleet, protests in Osakidetza and restrictions on access to the United States
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