Madrid unions and Madrid collection companies are reaching pre-grip after six days of strike
The unions and companies of the capital’s waste collection service have reached a pre-griping which will be subject to the vote on Sunday April 27 at the Assembly of Workers at 11:00 am, as we can know that we are.
The sources of the Madrid municipal council are convinced that the proposal which increases the strike committee is approved by the workers and in which the “definitively” garbage collection service is included.
These same sources wanted to appreciate “the exemplary behavior of Madrid” as well as the cleaning workers, who said that they were “up to any adversity”.
However, strike workers must approve of pre-griping this Sunday to end the strike. Already on April 22, after the first day of strike, a first pre-griping was reached between unions and the employer, but was finally rejected by the workers.
Cross the complaints between the municipal council and the unions
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, announced Friday that the municipal council would sanction the winning companies with a fine of 1.6 million euros for having allegedly raped the minimum services in the strike of the garbage collection. In addition, the Consistory promises to study other alternative routes to keep the streets without waste during the protest, ultimately indefinite, with municipal or outsourced environments.
The union response has been overwhelming, since Friday, a complaint presented to the provincial labor and social security inspection of Madrid accusing the municipal council of “raping the right to strike”.
In their memory, workers’ representatives recalled that there was a decree dated April 11, for which the Municipal Council of Madrid “established compulsory minimum services to guarantee public health, expressly limiting waste collection to justified hypotheses”; But that they are always certain that the Sélur – a municipal service outside the labor conflict – was, according to CCOO, “intervening during these days with the collection of garbage which clearly exceeds the minimum decreed services and de facto replacing the workers of the strike”.
Why did the strike reach?
The mobilization aims to force the companies outsourced by the Municipal Government of Madrid, which manage three lots between the FCC, the value, the Act, the Ohl, Prezero and Urbaser, to improve working conditions for the approval of a new agreement (the current expired on December 31).
From the professional RSU sector, the majority of unions denounce the freezing of wages in 2025 and 2026 and the limitation of the increase of 1% in 2027. Also the modification of the remuneration of the holidays and the cutting of accessories such as only one absence and the price of punctuality, which would cease to be perceived perceived by a single justified absence. CCOO, UGT and CGT, the other unions with more weight among the models, also secondary unemployment.