24-hour strike at ArcelorMittal unblocking the multinational company’s eighth framework agreement negotiations in Spain Production was halted in Sagunto, where the objection was unanimously met by the workers’ committee, while in Asturias, where it was only summoned by the CC OO union branch, according to the company, “not equal”and according to the calling union, The closure was “total”, with the exception of facilities where the “abusive minimum services” decision was made..
ArcelorMittal management reported that Asturian main facilities are operating normally. hot lane train has ‘unemployment cases’Part of cold rolling, galvanizing and tin plate belonging to the Avilés plant, and at the steel mill and heavy plate rolling mill located at the Gijón plant.
CC OO announced that “all production facilities are paralyzed, except for the facilities where the abusive minimum services agreed with the UGT and USO in 2005”. And “he” said, “Despite not being on the lookout” and this is it “Respecting the rights of those who choose not to support the strikes”.
According to this association, Asturias blast furnace B (A is stopped due to malfunction), coke batteries and sinter A (B is stopped due to blast furnace A accident) are operating with minimal service. On the contrary, and according to CC OO, the mining park is affected by the machinists’ strike, and the Gijón steelworks and rail, wire rod and plate trains are stopped.
In the case of Avilés, the LDA steel mill was in operation as it had the agreed minimum services, according to CC OO, while the hot strip train, pickling, tandem trains 1 and 2, galvanizing lines were stopped, he noted. 1 and 2, tin 2 and 3, continuous annealing , electrolytic cleaning, bell furnaces, annealing and control lines 1 and 2.
CC OO justifies the call for strike as a necessary action to break the company’s “inaction” in its proposal for a framework agreement for all its facilities in Spain. At the last meeting – CC OO claimed – the company proposed a 0.2% salary increase “from 12% to 12.2%”. The union said this increase represents a gross increase of 48 euros per year (7 euros per month) for: gross salary of 42,000 euros per year.
Contrary to CC OO’s position, the three committees of Asturias (Avilés and Gijón factories and mineral park committees) mostly decided not to join the call and retain their own committees. If there is no convergence in positions at the negotiating table this week, they will start mobilization as of May 2. The committees said that “negotiations of the eighth framework agreement are not considered broken” and that they still see room for an agreement.
Negotiation began a year ago and is intended to be finalized by the end of March. Now Asturian committees give this week as a margin.
CC OO’s union branch denounced this weekend that the company is still implementing the same minimum services it agreed upon with the UGT and USO in 2005. CC OO considers this to be a “unilateral and arbitrary” decision and reproaches that these agreements were “cancelled by the decision of the Asturias High Court of Justice after the lawsuit filed by CC OO” and accepted “from the current date”. Today, an appeal is pending.” Calling for the strike, the union announced that it “has taken legal action to sue the company for violations of the fundamental right to strike, aggravated by repetition and recklessness.”
In both Asturias and Sagunto (where the strike received the support of CC OO, UGT, CGT and Cuadros) Meetings were held in front of company facilities.