Pamplona (EFE).- The unions with representation in public companies (LAB, Lankide, UGT, CCOO, ELA and CGT) have requested in a press conference that the negotiating table for the first collective agreement in this sector, made up of thirteen companies.
Representing the unions, Oscar Otxoa, from LAB, has made a “very positive” assessment of the unanimous approval by the Parliament’s Committee on Economy and Finance of the motion that urges the Government of Navarra to establish, within the period of a month, this negotiating commission of the collective agreement of the companies grouped in the CPEN.
“In a land like ours, with an important plurality, and with six different groups represented in Parliament, the unanimity reflected yesterday around the creation of an agreement to order labor relations in public companies is very important, and from the social side we want to give it the undeniable value it has”, he declared.
Unions call for “irreversible commitments”
From the social side, he pointed out, they are aware of the difficulty of negotiating this agreement, that it is a process that will take time and that said negotiation will correspond to the new government that is constituted after the May elections, “since in this legislature there is no material time to do it”.
But, as was reflected in the motion, he said, “there is no impediment for this legislature to make irreversible commitments that guarantee that said negotiation will be carried out, and the commitment that gives us the most guarantees is to publicly establish and official the negotiating commission”.
After emphasizing that there is already “a clear mandate from Parliament”, he considered that the Government of Navarra and the CPEN “have the obligation to take a position and clarify their position on this issue, since, up to now, the position that has always been transmitted to the social part has been contrary to the creation of said agreement”.
The trade unionist recalled that the board of directors of the CPEN will meet on March 31, in which, in his opinion, this issue should be dealt with and “the constitution of the negotiating committee for the negotiation of an agreement of its own should be made possible before the end of this legislature.
A strike and a concentration on March 31
Coinciding with the meeting of the board of directors, the unions have called a strike and will hold a concentration in front of the Palacio de Navarra, since “the reality is that we do not have any guarantee that the negotiating commission for the agreement will be created, since that the Government of Navarra and CPEN refuse”, he highlighted.
The argument of the Government of Navarra to reject this negotiation, he pointed out, is that there is “a very great difficulty due to the diversity of the specific work of each company”.
Otxoa has recognized that it is a “complicated issue”, but “it cannot be an excuse for not materializing the agreement”. He has given the example of the civil service statute or the agreement of contracted workers of the Administration, which also cover very diverse areas.
“We are going to put all the meat on the grill to achieve that historic claim,” he concluded.
