The management signed with the UGT and CCOO unions the 24th company agreement for 2013/15, which provides for a pay freeze and more flexibility. The minority unions (ELA-STV, SITB-USO and BUB) rejected the agreement, signed after talks that last 2 years. The management got the unions to sign after threatening with pay disengagement, i.e. the possibility for a company having economic troubles to request the authorization of temporarily suspending the agreements signed with the employee representatives. Because of this threat, the company’s unions decided to sign to limit the damage rather than having bigger pay cuts imposed in the new collective agreement. (Ref. 130606)
The agreement covers over 3,000 Bridgestone employees over 4 sites: Burgos (Castile and León), Puente de San Miguel (Cantabria), and Basuri and Usansolo (Basque Country). The text was signed after bargaining for two years. The previous collective agreement, which had expired in 2011, had been extended to this day.
The CCOO union was the first to sign the text in May after presenting it to its workers for a vote – 51 percent accepted. Members of the UGT unions (which represents a majority of w
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