Unions called off strike at ITV when they agreed to equalize wages

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All workers The new public company managing the Valencia Community’s ITV they will charge the same depending on your category. This was agreed on Wednesday by company management Sitval and the concluding unions UGT, CC OO, CSIF and Intersindical. cancel the indefinite strike It was on the agenda this Friday.

As it will be remembered, the problem arose at this time: The new publicly traded company had to recruit staff from different franchisees. tasked with providing this service in autonomy until last February. This meant that although they already belonged to the same company, each group of workers had different working conditions depending on their origin, which was illegal as condemned by the unions.

For this reason, wage differentials can be up to 40% Employees of former concessionaires in the state of Alicante were also among the hardest hit.

While those responsible for Sitval were clear from the start that all employees must be paid, it takes time to agree on how to do it caused the unions to rise up and threatened to go on strikeIt would start next Friday. In fact, the unions and the company were summoned in the Labor Arbitration Court this Thursday to settle the case.

One of the ITV services in Alicante. HECTOR RESOURCES

However, mediation was not necessary as the Sitval management called on workers’ representatives to set up a negotiating table and finally yielded results Wednesday.

The agreement reached Minimum wage this year will be incremented until exact equalization is reached. four-year period. However, they state that the highest proportional increase from unions will be this year.

Negotiations also began to be able to trust.There is no single collective agreement for the entire ITV of the Community of Valencia, compared to the eight currently in existence as a result of the reversal of concessions.

The establishment of a publicly traded company to manage ITV is part of Consell’s policy to return to the public sector a significant portion of the services privatized during the PP period, as was the case with Torrevieja or Alzira hospitals. In this case, the newly established company is subordinate to the Ministry of Economy.

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