One year earlier, the sector's social partner and the Labour Ministry had agreed to a plan to support the textile industry, by a 870-million euros grant to help the sector's companies adapt to globalization (see our story n°06550). As part of a new agreement concluded on May 22, 2007, the same parties decided on social measures, paid for by the state, which will be established to help the reclassification of employees threatened by the decline in the textile industry. (Ref. 070457)
Since may 2006, the Spanish government has been sitting up at the textile industry’s bedside (see our story n°06550). At the time, the Labour Ministry had elaborated, with social partners from the textile sector (the intertextile council on the employers side, and the union federations FIA-UGT and Fiteqa-CCO), a plan to support the textile sector, which includes measures of industrial policies (see our story n006550). Still in the same spirit that governed during this plan’s elaboration, govern
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