Comes a strike in the meat sector. Why should we pay attention to it? In this article we review the call for this in addition to the vital importance of meat in our country. How many people live from this? What are the dimensions of this sector? Keep reading and understand the possible repercussions.
Strike in the meat sector?
Unions UGT y CC.OO. have convened a strike in the meat sector. It will take place during the days 25 and 26 November, in addition to those between the December 3 and 8. The objective is to improve the labor and salary conditions of the sector through the collective state agreement. This has been in negotiations for eleven months and the unions assure that there has been no progress covering the "Just demands" of the sector.
As if that were not enough, the unions have summoned her to a month that the Labor agreement in force for the purposes of the last labor reform. Both consider that the employer missed the opportunity to settle the matter. Thus, they assure that the proposal of this contains improvements, however, it still retains proposals that harm the rights of workers.
While the unions finalize their next meeting with the employers, they dedicate themselves to explaining the situation to the members. They have called different assemblies in which they will present the reasons and objectives of the strike in the meat sector. It is a fight to which we must pay attention due to the vital importance of the sector in Spain.
Key importance of the meat sector
According to the figures of the National Association of Meat Industries of Spain (ANICE) we are faced with a productive fabric formed by some 3000 companies. As if that were not enough, most are in rural areas. What helps to fix problation. They also represent the value of 22% of the entire food sector Spanish. Meat is also the 2% of Spanish GDP and employs almost a hundred thousand people. 99.859 workers is the exact figure. It is not a sector to be taken as a joke.
