The first day of strike called by the Banco Sabadell unions to protest the ERE that the entity is negotiating has achieved a follow-up of 85%, according to data provided by UGT. Specifically, today’s strike is called in the cities of A Coruña, Alicante, Almería, Barcelona, Bilbao, Castellón, Ibiza, Las Palmas, León, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Palma, Pamplona, San Sebastián, Valencia, Valladolid and Saragossa.
After the stoppages of 15 minutes on Monday and an hour on Tuesday, the workers’ representatives consider that this is a “strategic” week to put pressure on the bank’s management. For this reason, both the CC OO and the trade union platform that brings together the UGT, SIBS Federation Sicam-Approves, High Union, GBS and Intersyndical cadres, They have asked for the massive participation of the workers to support the strike.
However, bank sources detail that operational continuity and customer service have not been altered “despite the possible inconvenience caused.” Likewise, they reiterate their willingness to continue negotiating to find an agreement that is the best for all parties.
This Friday, October 8, another day of strike is called in the cities of Alicante, Almería, Barcelona, Bilbao, Castellón, Gijón, Ibiza, León, Madrid, Murcia, Pamplona, Sabadell, San Sebastian, Santiago de Compostela, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Valencia. Furthermore, the unions they do not rule out that the calendar of mobilizations be extended.
And it is that the positions between representatives of the workers and the entity remain distant despite the fact that Sabadell has improved the initial conditions. In this way, the bank has reduced the number of exits from the initial 1,936 to the 1,730 that it now contemplates. In addition, it has also improved some of its proposals, by including all the entity’s commercial staff in the groups that can adhere to the measures, while being in favor of including a maximum quota of 50 people, if necessary at some point. territory, of people between 50 and 55 years old.
Likewise, it has improved its proposal for early retirement, since employees over 58 years of age, and up to 62 years old, they will have an early retirement of 57% of the annual salary (compared to to 55% previously proposed by the entity), while employees who take early retirement between the ages of 56 and 57 will have an early retirement of 55% of salary (versus 50% previously).
at the last meeting the unions demanded again the total voluntary nature of the departures, the elimination of geographic quotas, the non-exclusion of any age group and the avoidance of any “dramatic”.
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