Unai Sordo, general secretary of the Workers' Commissions (CCOO), the largest trade union in Spain, with 977,000 members and 97,000 union delegates across companies, set out what he hopes can be achieved through the new government’s labour law reform efforts (see article n°11571), as he spoke before an audience of foreign press, including Planet Labor.
The impact of raising the minimum wage. When speaking about the impact of the increase to the minimum wage (salario mínimo interprofessional, SMI) in Spain (see article n°11606), Unai Sordo underlined that this lower limit is set only to marginally impact wages, since pay in the country is traditionally determined by sectoral and regional collective agreements, which set wages above the SMI. Nonetheless, he explained, the minimum wage of €950 per month “concerns 2 million people”. The union lea
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