Madrid’s assortment employees say ‘no’ to the settlement: within the coronary heart of the voting that assist the strike | News from Madrid | EUROtoday

“Many!” The Pope has died. We proceed on strike!

The rubbish assortment employees of Madrid pull the harangue of a companion from the Vallecas park window. After a infarction day and 1211 ballots later, the choice concerning the availability of the businesses has been unanimous: the strike should proceed. All votes have been positioned at 22.02 at evening at a oak wooden desk from Vallecas Park. While a number of dozens of individuals linked to the sector remained on the gates of the amenities, about twenty “colleagues” and union representatives supervised that the rely was appropriate. Despite generalized optimism, the amassed rigidity all through the afternoon reached its peak when there was no turning again. The determination was in these papers crossed out that nobody from these current appeared to need to rely. “I am of the nerves, brother. We have to continue fighting, we cannot settle for so little,” mentioned a voluntary employee who went as much as the room as a witness that the rely was clear. The outcomes have been so apparent that earlier than the tip of counting all these current, they have been clear in regards to the finish. The precise knowledge has been: 254 votes in favor of the settlement, 17 clean and 940 towards. Participation has been round 65%.

The majority union among the many employees, RSU skilled sector, has already stood out for the reason that information of the “closing agreement” that “was not a pre -agreement” jumped. “Its efficiency is subject until the template ratifies it and validates it by urn and private vote,” defined the collective’s lawyer, José Luis Pérez Real. The “referendum” was held on Tuesday in two batches. The first within the morning and the second at evening so that each one employees might train their proper to vote. At half previous 9 the polls have been closed and earlier than 22.00 all of the polls have been already in Vallecas.

Jo one of many drivers, was blunt and towards the agreed circumstances. “Not only do we not recover purchasing power but we lose social rights,” he mentioned. “According to our calculations, if we look at the CPI we have lost 12% in our salaries in these years of frozen salaries and now they grant us only 4%. We are not asking for money but to recover the conditions we had,” he says. As for social rights, Jo says that “so far” they’ve the fee of 100% of the work casualties through the first 60 days, one thing that “disappear” underneath the brand new circumstances. On the opposite hand, the person emphasizes that they’ve been claiming a “fair job bank” for a very long time. “The template is nourished above all for family and friends, this generates tremendous injustices. Now more if possible with part -time hiring. You do not depend on your merits but on other things. We want that to be regularized and not done,” he concludes. On Monday at 17:30 within the afternoon, in a gathering room of the Hotel Ilunion on Pío XII Avenue, within the Chamartín district of Madrid, all of the events concerned met. On one facet of the desk, the profitable corporations of the three tons wherein the rubbish assortment service was divided: FCC, Valoriza (Sacyr subsidiary), Prezero, Actua, Ohla and Urbaser. On the opposite, the three representatives representatives of the employees and convenings of the strikes: CC OO, RSU and UGT skilled sector. After eleven o’clock at evening it was when the businesses “started negotiating.” About seven within the morning, after a break and 14 hours in a row with “amounts up and down”, there was a “unilateral” script flip. A consultant of the businesses launched a task to the unions. “Here you have, we are not going to negotiate anymore and we do not want to hear any proposal your more. The negotiation is over,” they settled. Given that, “the entire social part” replied that he would switch the settlement to the workers and that it might be the one which determined.

The rejection of the settlement implies the continuation of the “indefinite” strike till new discover. The minimal companies raised by the City Council are set till April 28. These will stay 50%, so the gathering of house waste will probably be made at some point and at some point, relying on the district wherein it’s lived. Thus, through the evening from Tuesday to Wednesday the rubbish is not going to be collected, in line with the calendar designed by the Consistory, within the Centro, Arganzuela, Salamanca, Chamartín, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Chamberí, Moncloa-Aravaca, Carabanchel, Usera, Linear City, Vicálvaro and San Blas-Canillejas districts. It will probably be finished in retirement, Tetuán, Latina, Puente de Vallecas, Moratalaz, Hortaleza, Villaverde, Villa de Vallecas and Barajas. The minimal 50% companies enhance 100% within the case of important buildings equivalent to hospitals, colleges, residences or markets, the place waste assortment will probably be carried out underneath the identical circumstances wherein it’s normally offered.

Pedro Morán, accountable for city sanitation of employees’ commissions, detailed what the closing settlement consisted. “The strike was convened because the three parties were very remote. The winning companies wanted a seven-year contract with salary freezing practically in the first two or three years. We wanted an agreement to two. Finally, on our part, we have ceded and an agreement has been agreed with validity 2025-2030, that is, six years,” he mentioned. In this sense, from the skilled sector it’s defined that the rationale for the 2 years is that in 2028 the contract of the businesses subcontracted by the City Council ends. “We do not want to sign a long -term agreement when companies and the administrative contract itself will not be here,” defined a union consultant. “At the same time, average salary increases have been set that are above 4% per year. In addition, there will be two more days of their own issues for the entire template and an improvement in the holiday The professional sector representative counted. “This has not understood the corporate. They haven’t wished to evaluate these points,” he concluded.

In accordance with the agreement signed in 2020 and in force until December 31, 2024, the salary of a worker of garbage collection companies varies depending on their category. For the young men – which are loaded and discharged by the cubes at street level – it is on average at 35,280.23 euros gross per year (2,940 per month) including all the concepts. That of a driver would be 36,211.26 (3,017.60 per month), while that of employees in workshops that are responsible for vehicle repair is located at 38,772.04 (3,231 per month).

On the first strike night, 47% of the total waste was collected. The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, prematurely held the failed agreement. q “I’m deeply glad that employees have fulfilled and the minimal companies of the City Council have been met. And I additionally need to thank all Madrid’s, as a result of I do know that it isn’t simple to have a waste assortment strike and, nonetheless, as on so many and so many events, Madrid have as soon as once more had exemplary habits,” said Almeida. The delegate of Urbanism, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, was also wrong in his predictions. “We are very optimistic in regards to the finish of the strike. I believe that over the following few hours we may have excellent news concerning the mistrust,” said the delegate.

On the ground, the effects of the first day of strike have been palpable both in sight and smell. Antonia Calas Street in Puente de Vallecas smells like almost every day: in garbage. Until two months ago, 18 containers were placed on the road full of plastic and organic remains. Now “fortunately” they have been reduced to eight. Pedro V., 54, is one of the few merchants in the area who was aware of on the night from Monday to Tuesday the garbage truck would not pass. Pedro has repeatedly denounced the “unhealthy” conditions of many sidewalks. “It smells like each day sadly. The strike in Vallecas doesn’t discover,” he says, pointing out some boxes of past strawberries that have thrown those of the Frucetería in front. “Then somebody will come to empty the dice and depart every thing on the bottom. In the afternoon those that wish to piss right here arrive,” says the man. Pedro, who has reinforced on Tuesday the good smell of his establishment with two herbalist flags, shows a collection of photos on his mobile phone to which he himself has called “rubbish.” On the road, no neighbor is conscious of the battle, stroll between baggage with waste as if that have been the same old panorama des their lives.