Madrid, (EFE) unions for next Thursday, the first day of sales.
According to CCOO sources consulted by EFE, the concentrations have been carried out at the doors of about 15 stores of the textile group, while the partial strike (11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) has been seconded in more than a hundred establishments.
The same source has indicated that, approximately and without counting the partial unemployment in the afternoon, the follow-up has been 80% of a store workforce made up of 4,000 workers throughout Spain.
The partial strikes called this Tuesday in two shifts were confirmed after the negotiation table convened at the SIMA with representatives of the company and the unions failed the day before.
Proposals “insufficient and very little concrete”
The CCOO and UGT unions have opined that the proposals launched by the company at the SIMA meeting continue to be “insufficient and very imprecise” in relation to sales incentives, the responsibility bonus or the salary supplement in cases of leave for sickness.
H&M has indicated in this regard in a note that yesterday presented a package of measures to the social part “that satisfies the identified needs”.
It adds that it proposes an increase in effective resources in the store through definitive extensions of hours in part-time contracts and more hiring and higher remuneration through a flexible system based on the achievement of objectives.
This coming Thursday, H&M begins its sales season, although the unions have called a 24-hour strike in all the chain’s stores.
“Precarious” working conditions
CCOO, the majority union at the state level with 53% representation, believes that H&M “subjects the workforce to precarious working conditions” and has asked the company for more specificity in its counterproposals.
By geographical areas, concentrations and strikes have been called in stores in Galicia (Pontevedra, Vigo, La Coruña and Santiago); Asturias (Siero); Andalusia (Seville and Malaga); Castile-La Mancha (Ciudad Real); Valencian Community (Valencia and Alicante); Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Bilbao or Barcelona, among others.
The unions calling these mobilizations are UGT (35% representation throughout the State), CCOO, Ciga (in Galicia) and ELA (Basque Country), who have announced a second day of 24-hour strike for next Monday.
The CCOO denounces that there are several months of meetings at the negotiating table in which, it assures, the existing problems in the H&M Group (H&M, COS, Other Stories, Weekday) have been transferred to the company “that require an effective solution” on all in terms of working conditions and wages.