CCOO denounces the attitude of the employers’ association in salary equalization
The CCOO union has harshly criticized the management of the elderly sector for having wasted real opportunities to make progress in equalizing wages for workers in the sector. In a manifesto presented this Monday, the main business organizations in the sector have demanded the equalization of the salaries of their employees with public workers, but CCOO has regretted the opportunism and the lack of action of the employer in this regard.
Claim and lack of action by employers
CCOO has made it clear that it is not against the demand for equal pay, but believes that employers have had several opportunities to advance this issue through collective bargaining, but have not done so. The union remembers that employers could have applied to wages the increases in rates received from the Generalitat, but they did not do so in previous years. In addition, they have denounced the lack of application of the increments and increases that the agreement includes, all this despite union pressure (https://www.softcatala.org/resum-de-textos-en-catala/).
Inadequate statements and lack of action at key moments
CCOO has questioned the employers’ statement at an inappropriate time and has wondered why the claim was not made at key moments such as the preparation of the Generalitat’s budgets for previous years. The union has regretted the statements it considers testimonial and opportunistic, and has emphasized that the approval of conditions must not be exclusively salary, but must include other labor rights (https://www.softcatala.org/resum-de -catalan-texts/).
Criticism of employers and demand for extraordinary investment
Manolo Fages, Secretary of Public Policy of CCOO de Catalunya, has regretted that the employers’ manifesto is a way of seeking complicity and using workers as an excuse to request increases in endowments. In addition, it should be remembered that the organizations of the sector have requested an extraordinary investment of 250 million euros from the government to equate the salaries of the professionals in the residences and day centers with publicly funded places with the salaries of the residences owned by the Generalitat (https://www.softcatala.org/resum-de-textos-en-catala/).
Demands on political parties
The manifesto also proposes that the parties that present themselves in the next elections incorporate the demand for salary equalization in their electoral programs and in the future executive.
