Workers ITV of the Valencian Community They will not go on strike on October 22. UGT, CC OO, Intersindical and CSIF unions are back delay the protest after a while Attorney general’s report finds pay equalization deal ‘fixable’ With the agreement they signed with the previous management of Sitval, the public company that manages the service, the Ministry of Innovation, Industry and Tourism committed to collect the necessary documents and reports for its implementation.
This situation was expressed by both staff representatives and the Autonomous Administration. new meeting He said that they met this Wednesday in order to resolve this dispute. Like this, Strike call postponed until November 6We are waiting for the new steps that the Generalitat must take.
As you may remember, the problem is Reversal of ITV service, Began to be managed by a new public company in March –Sitval– almost two decades later it was privatized and passed into the hands of eight different concessionaires. This situation occurs even though Sitval workers perform the same task. They will receive different salaries depending on the dealership they previously worked for.
A problem arises particularly affected by a significant proportion of ITV employees in the province Alicante, Who were the lowest paid? The company’s previous executives, under the Consell del Botànic, agreed to equalize all salaries but never implemented it.
With the advent of the new Consell the workers’ representatives demanded compliance with it, but the new Industry heads refused, considering the agreement valid. did not have the necessary reports its validity by other departments and the lack of information on this subject were condemned.
After the first meeting, which served to unblock the situation, the Ministry presented this Wednesday a report from the Generalitat Lawyers’ Office; According to the department headed by Nuria Montes, the agreement is considered invalid because its implementation is incomplete and incomplete. of the above-mentioned reports, but also “fixable“. In other words, salary equalization can be applied as long as the necessary legal conditions are met.
Thus, the Ministry has already activated the necessary mechanism to submit the necessary documents in order to implement the equalization it has once again committed to.