The unions of the Lloret de Mar City Council have initiated protest measures to demand the renewal of the municipal labor agreement, expired since 2012. The first action will have a direct impact on the Local Police, which will indefinitely suspend overtime hours from this Friday.
The decision has been communicated jointly by CSIF, CSC Intersindical, SIP FEPOL, UGT and USOC, who attribute the conflict to the lack of progress in collective bargaining with the municipal government. In the case of the Local Police of Lloret de Mar, union representation falls on CSIF and SIP FEPOL.
Protests for the blocking of the agreement
The union representatives place the origin of the conflict in the blocking of the negotiation of the agreement and maintain that the City Council has not convened neither the police sectorial table nor the commission in charge of renewing the municipal labor framework, despite the requests formulated during the last years.
"We have tried to do everything on our part, even more than what is our responsibility, to facilitate the negotiation between the parties, but even so we have not received a response, nor any proposal, to our demands" - Union representatives, Lloret de Mar City Council
In addition to the suspension of overtime hours in the Local Police, the maintenance staff has announced that they will not do on-call shifts during the month of May. The unions state that the measures will remain in force until a negotiation calendar is set.
Claim for salary review
Among the main demands is a salary review. The trade union organizations denounce a loss of purchasing power exceeding 20% since 2010 and consider it unacceptable for the staff to continue working under labor conditions approved 18 years ago.
"We do not ask for privileges, we ask for professional dignity and an update, after 14 years without renewing the agreement" - Union representatives, Lloret de Mar City Council
The unions have called a workers' assembly for the coming days with the aim of debating the situation and studying a possible expansion of the protests. The struggle with the city council now remains pending the opening of a formal negotiation that allows to unblock a conflict entrenched for more than a decade.