The ELA and the LAB have called for a meeting to lament the agreement signed last July at the Social Dialogue Table between the Basque Government, the Confebask employers’ association and the CCOO and UGT unions. In the midst of the electoral campaign, the nationalist unions will meet in front of the Presidency. The trade union majority that they make up – 59% of the representatives of the Basque Country are members of the ELA and the LAB – will reject the lack of respect for the results of the trade union elections.

According to New, the signatories of the agreement will seek to renew the agreements in the sectors in which it is possible, through general agreements. On the contrary, the CCOO and the UGT will expand their limited impact treaties in areas where they do not have a majority. For its part, the Government will publish these agreements signed in the minority in the legal repository.

The general secretary of the LAB, Ainhoa Etxaid, believes that the agreement has been made in the long term and is considered “strategic for the employer”: “They propose a way to get us out of the way.” For his part, according to Adolfo Muñoz, head of the ELA, “the employer must be satisfied because there are people in the government who are working for him without any shame.”

Muñoz has called on the Basque Government for signing an agreement with the employers’ association “without scruples or principles” and the Spanish trade unions. According to him, it is anti-democratic that the workers do not respect what was decided in the elections.