Sumar has made “all its political capacity” and dialogue capacity available to the unions with the employers to achieve the “best” agreement in the employment regulation files that Telefónica will apply in its three main subsidiaries in Spain (Teléfonica de España , Mobiles and Solutions), as reported by the training to UGT and CCOO in a meeting held this Tuesday.
In the meeting, in which Sumados-Fetico, the other union present in the negotiations of the ERE and the collective agreement of related companies, did not participate, Sumar also called the parties to successive meetings to update the development of the ongoing conversations. between labor organizations and Telefónica.
Telefónica has raised a “functional surplus” of 5,124 workers in the company, specifically, 81 in Telefónica Soluciones, 958 in Telefónica Móviles and 4,085 in Telefónica de España, and at this time one of the main points of friction in the negotiations have to do with the operator’s intention to introduce forced departures, unlike previous staff reduction processes, in which voluntariness prevailed.
In that sense, one of the main doubts that remain to be cleared up in the framework of the collective dismissal negotiations has to do with the economic conditions for the workers.
CCOO, which met this Tuesday with the coalition parliamentary group and UGT, has once again emphasized that the negotiation of the ERE goes hand in hand with that of the new collective agreement of related companies (CEV), given that the current one is an extension of the previous one and expires on December 31, according to Europa Press.
Specifically, the unions have highlighted, in relation to the negotiation of the agreement, that they have already expressed their objectives by insisting on issues such as teleworking, reduction of working hours, salary increases with a review clause based on the Consumer Price Index. (IPC) or the need to integrate new legal subsidiaries into Telefónica de España, as is the case of Telyco (Tiendas Movistar), “in order to improve the working and salary conditions of this group as well as alleviate the progressive and sustained decline in the time of representation of working people, with what this entails”.
For their part, both UGT and CCOO have agreed on the presentation of the situation, and have expressed their commitment to work under the “umbrella of the union unit to alleviate the negative impacts of a decision of this magnitude.”
The next meetings on the ERE at Telefónica will take place on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, while those on the collective agreement will take place on Wednesday and Thursday.
In this context, Sumar has regretted that “companies that receive public aid opt for ways of destroying jobs instead of training workers and reformulating jobs,” as reported by the parliamentary group to Europa Press.
They have also assured that they have analyzed both the situation of the current ERE process and, “very particularly, the threats to a strategic sector, telecommunications, which generates, just counting the 3 large companies, more than 70,000 direct jobs.”
Sumar explained that, in more global terms, this meeting has allowed them to confirm that the telecommunications sector “is in need of public policies that allow technological sovereignty in Europe, which is also key to protecting digital employment and working conditions.” worthy for the working class”.
“We believe that they have not understood the position on the issues raised by our organization,” as reported by union sources in reference to the new collective agreement of related companies (CEV).
Regarding geographical mobility, for the unions it is a “cornerstone” in the negotiation, establishing that, with the disappearance of the guarantee of non-forced interprovincial and interisland mobility, “there is no possibility of agreement.”
“We demand the rectification of their position and that article 13 of said guarantee remain as it is worded in the II CEV, covering the years of duration of the next agreement,” they stated.
They also recalled that they have already expressed their position on the professional classification model and salary structure in previous meetings.
In this sense, they have been “agreeable” with the classification and structure they have been given in the different agreements that have been agreed upon over the years.
“We do not believe that a rethinking of both aspects is necessary and we flatly reject the document provided,” they stated.