The strike called by the union this Saturday CGT in two brands group inditex –Zara (including Lefties and Kiddy’s Class) and Pull&Bear– corresponding to the beginning sales textile giant According to the organizers of the meeting, it is recording “high attendance” in its physical stores.
This morning’s concentration on Calle Preciados in Madrid, one of the capital’s main commercial arteries, “vseveral hundred “workersfor reassuring EFE, attended by a CGT spokesperson protests in other Spanish cities Like Seville, Barcelona or Logroño.
Likewise, the union assures that monitoring of the strike resulted in the closure of about eight stores, all in the capital.
In this sense, claiming that the company has violated its rights The workers are striking by strengthening shifts, so they intend to file a complaint against the group.
Sync salary increase
CGT, a minority within Inditex, is present in all autonomous communities and provinces. negotiated salary increase recently with social representation in A Coruña.
On 22 December, an agreement was reached in the state of A Coruña that the Inditex store staff group of 1,500 to 1,600 people will receive a monthly increase in salary bonuses: 322 euros for the first year, 362 euros the following year. second and then 382 euros.
These increases in 15 monthly payments correspond to approximately 5,700 Euros per year.
The CGT also demands an increase in wages of 250 euros per month for workers with less than 15 hours a day, pay on Sundays on the same terms as holidays, and offset the benefits received by logistics, factories and power plants.
Majority unions in Inditex, CCOO and UGT, they did not agree with this call, with the support of more than 90% of the workforce.
That same week, both unions announced that they would begin talks with the company on January 25 to address wage measures that offset the impact of inflation on their employees’ salaries.