Spain: employees at the Vitoria Mercedes Benz (Basque region) site approve a new collective agreement against a backdrop of significant union division

The agreement intends for a 1.8% annual pay rise and permanent employment contracts for some 1,000 employees currently on temporary employment contracts. The agreement, negotiated solely by the UGT was approved by 53.5% of the site’s employees. The agreement needs the CCOO’s ratification on 12 December before its contents can be generally applied.
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Workers at the Basque region’s Vitoria Mercedes Benz site have finally secured a collective agreement. The CCOO’s decision to agree to ratify the agreement that the UGT alone negotiated finally puts and end to weeks of suspense and also enables a union majority, which will lead to the agreement’s contents having general application, in spite of the deep union division within the WC where the Basque separatist unions the ELA and the LAB have continued to refuse to sign. This new agreement...

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