Tubacex’s management has acknowledged in a newsletter to the workers that the impact of the strike is being high. The document explains that the strike has already caused "irreparable damage" to the company's customers, as it has affected several of its demands. In this sense, the management has described the commercial situation of the multinational as "serious".
The future of the 600 workers at risk
The leadership has attacked the strikers because there are workers who are receiving “threats, pressures and insults” so that they do not go to work, “and they are not admissible.” “Every person working in the company must exercise his or her right to decide on strike or work, without any repression. The freedom of people is of all people, not of one or the other.”
Management has stressed that the decisions made by each of them “looking to the future” are individual. In this regard, it has called for "individual responsibility" in the peace process.
The company calls for “individual responsibility” and asks workers to reflect on the follow-up to the strike
Finally, the company has invited workers to reflect on the desirability of a strike. In fact, the heads of the workplaces have warned in their newsletter that if the strike continues “the future of the other 600 workers who continue to form TTI and Aceralava would be put at risk”. In addition, he has assured that the protests will not help the redundant workers to be re-readmitted in the anti-reform protests.
Dismissals
The company’s management has also provided information on the situation of redundancies in the newsletter. In total, 128 jobs will be destroyed, which means 11 pre-retirement, 22 voluntary casualties and 95 traumatic redundancies, according to the Basque Government. “All persons have been informed of the termination of the contract and have already received compensation.” The company has thus completed the ongoing process of the Employment Regulation Dossier (ERE).
