Unions are disarmed by the labor law reform. That’s what comes out of the two social conflicts with the most media coverage these past few months. One is between workers and management at Panrico, the industrial bakery, and the other was at Coca Cola Iberian Partners, Coca Cola’s bottling company in Spain. In both cases, the management tried to avoid union opposition by offering individual agreements directly to the workers to dissuade collective mobilization.
At Panrico, a plant’s management suggests lowering the number of layoffs if WC representatives are among those to go. For 7 months, Panrico’s factory in Santa Perpetua, near Barcelona, has been on strike to oppose the 156 layoffs contained in the social plan signed in November 2013. It’s the only factory – out of 5 – to reject the global agreement signed at group level by the UGT and CCOO unions. The number of job cuts was already reduced, from, 1,914 in the beginning to 745 over 4 years for
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