Throughout 11 November, representatives of employers’ associations ANICE and FECIC and the UGT and CCOO trade unions continued negotiations aimed at resolving the labour dispute in the meat industry.
Following the talks, the unions reported a significant convergence of positions and, as a “gesture of goodwill”, decided to cancel the strike days scheduled for 12 and 13 November.
Workers who choose to exercise their right to strike on the night of 11 November and who began their working week on Monday night remain covered by the previous strike notice.
According to the unions, the terms of the future preliminary agreement are already close to meeting their main demands. These include guarantees that wages will be indexed to inflation and purchasing power will be protected, reductions in working time, improved leave and authorised absence arrangements, as well as changes related to occupational health and safety and the regulation of work intensity.
UGT and CCOO expect the preliminary agreement on the new collective bargaining agreement to be formalised in the near future.
The unions also thanked workers across the sector for taking part in the strike, noting that the scale of the protest made it possible to achieve progress in negotiations that had seemed unlikely just a week earlier.
The cancellation of the final two strike days should reduce the risk of further disruption at Spanish abattoirs and meat-processing plants, which had been operating under restrictions during the first days of the protest.
PigUA.info, based on materials from europapress.es