Despite the repeated attempts by the employers’ associations to reach an agreement at a new mediation meeting, held today at the SIMA Foundation (Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service), the unions CC.OO., UGT and CIG have prevented the signing of an agreement for the Collective Agreement for the Meat Industries.
In an absolutely intransigent and unconciliatory attitude, the unions have tried to force a twisted interpretation of some points of the pre-agreement related to compensation and absorption and paid leave.
ANAFRIC, together with the rest of the sector’s employers’ associations, reports that on November 22, after seventeen hours of meeting, the parties signed a pre-agreement in which numerous improvements had been agreed, including salary increases of 3% for 2024 and another 3% in 2025, as well as a reduction in the working day, on an annual basis, of 12 hours.
With this “all or nothing” attitude and despite new gestures from the employers’ associations during the mediation, salary increases for more than 110,000 workers in the sector remain up in the air.
The commitment of the companies to their workers to want to update the salaries remains despite the incomprehensible attitude of the unions. The companies will look for the mechanisms to be able to make the agreements on salary matters effective as soon as possible.
From now on, a new scenario of uncertainty opens up in which it is possible that the ongoing negotiation will have to return to the starting point.
Other information of interest
- Las patronales y los sindicatos del sector cárnico llegan a un preacuerdo que evita la huelga en el sector
- Los sindicatos rompen las negociaciones del convenio colectivo del sector de la industria cárnica
