Bulletin Layoffs and worker struggles

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Bulletin Layoffs and labor struggles (15-12-2012)

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PARADORES 118 layoffs and 50 PROPOSED CONTRACT CHANGES IN ANDALUSIA, Ayamonte and reconverted CAZORLA CLOSE AND ARCHES

Europa Press - Sevilla

 Paradores Society presented on Monday his record of employment regulation (ERE) for facilities nationwide, where 118 layoffs are contemplated in Andalusia, plus 50 contract amendments also seen the closure of the Parador de Ayamonte ( Huelva) and the conversion of hostels Cazorla (Jaén) and Arcos de la Frontera (Cádiz).

CCOO sources have indicated that in this first meeting, which was closed without agreement between the parties, it has been reported that nationally 644 redundancies are contemplated and 856 amendments to contracts, that is, 1,500 workers will be affected.

The sources, who recalled that in Andalusia there are 16 hostels and 796 workers, 50 have indicated that changes in Andalucia will work both reduced working hours as fixed contracts novations fixed discontinuous.

 They have officially announced that it will close the hostel Ayamonte (Huelva), while two hostels in the reconverted season, that is, Cazorla and Arcos de la Frontera, which will only be open in one part of the year and its workers will novated their contracts, fixed to fixed discontinuous.

The layoffs will be shared by the whole of hostels, as indicated by the sources, who stated that once the ERE officially opens the consultation period, which will last a month, but sources fear that "will close without agreement."

Given this, the unions, which have called strike for Thursday and Friday of this week, the first two days of the bridge December, to be followed by more strikes and protests.

CCOO has spoken out against "flat" to ERE, since they consider it "outrageous" and regrets that the Government "is dedicated to closing the hostels that are not profitable, it seeks privatization", so that "really affected everyone, both bouncing like modifying their contracts and those who remain. "

Sources have lamented that "managers and the president have made and mismanagement have caused this situation of lack of profitability", so have appealed to all workers to "abet the strike", and have shown convinced that "unity is needed more than ever."

"We will fight to save crucial, as is the flagship of the tourism and hospitality industry in Spain, which has generated a lot of wealth in our country," added sources have CC.OO., who believe that "the network of hostels must remain public "since" is a reference to the brand outside Spain. "

BRIDGESTONE, UGT and CCOO ERE 327 SIGN THE DISMISSAL IN SPAIN

EFE

The direction of Bridgestone and unions UGT and CCOO, which dominate the works council, today signed the document formalizing a record of layoffs for 327 workers at four plants in Spain group, representing 8.6 percent of the total workforce.

The agreement, which has not been signed by the USO, is the output of 177 plant workers Basauri of Usansolo 17, 81 of the San Miguel Bridge and 52 in Burgos, as a result of the restructuring that intends to apply because of declining sales and the reduction is expected for 2013.

Union sources have explained that those affected by the record a compensation charge of 42 days per year worked with a maximum of 3.5 annuities, and business commitment that if new collective redundancies in 2013 will remain the same economic conditions.

It is also accepted by the unions applying a system flexibility through reduced hours and wages, transfer of 14 workers over 50 years of plant Usansolo to Basauri, and outplacement services on hire 8 workers Burgos, 6 in Puente San Miguel and 13 in Basauri.

It has also been agreed relocations plan whereby the company would bear the cost of moving up to 300 euros for those laid off to continue with the training program more than 3 months to live outside the city where the offices.

The labor pact signed in Basauri contemplates the voluntary transfer of workers to other factories of the company, and the acceptance of voluntary excluding workers over 50 years.

In the computation of all plants in Spain, the 3354 workers called on Monday and Tuesday to inquire about the firm's labor agreement, 1712 voted in favor of signing it, 477 against, 126 were blank ballots and 13 null .

Following the signing of the agreement and in a statement, the USO has rejected the agreement "because, not only means accepting layoffs but would be partakers of the start of the relocation of Bridgestone in Spain."

In his view, the record demonstrates "the zero commitment" to the company, because he has not submitted a viability plan and future, nor commitment to maintaining the templates, nor guarantee that when they recover sales in reverse Spain plants.

Furthermore, USE said that "criticizes and repudiates" the attitude taken by UGT and CCOO in this negotiation that has resulted in the dismissal of 327 workers.

THE FUTURE IS IN VILO LIBERBANK

Madrid

The entity born of the union of Cajastur (which includes CCM) with boxes of Cantabria and Extremadura need more capital 1.198 million in the adverse scenario stress test of Oliver Wyman.

One bill that did blow up their merger plans and Box3 Ibercaja, and now must face alone with certain public support.

Parallel to a capital increase of 500 million euros, the company has proposed to its workers approving four years of strong wage restraint in return, though, not to reduce costs by way of layoffs.

The negotiation setting, if anything, has been suspended at least until 20 December when Brussels will approve the plan viability of the institution.

Until then, however, which rests on the negotiating table is a proposal to conduct a three-year temporary ERE.

In each year from 2013 to 2015, 20% of staff would then return to unemployment.

In parallel, it would take a salary adjustment that would be from January 1, 2013 until December 31, 2016.

First, during this period would be reduced workers their day (and salary) in half an hour a day, and would be deleted shifts of Thursday afternoon.

From there, the wages would be lowered to a minimum collected by the collective agreement for each job, a market valuation if this was not picked up or suffer an average reduction of 7%.

On wages of managers apply an additional adjustment of 11.5% of their fixed salary, so that the average reduction would stand at 18.5%.

The proposed entity also includes the temporary suspension of contributions to the pension plans until 2017, and the removal of life insurance, health insurance, Christmas shopping, the extras by birth, marriage or death, aid studies and some union subsidies.

For regular employees, all these measures can amount to a total loss equivalent to between 40% and 50% of their salary, according to union estimates.

Sources close to the company indicate, however, that these are exceptional cases, and that the pay cuts would not affect the fixed salary payroll staff with less than 30,000 euros per year.

Representatives Liberbank workers, among which are CCOO, UGT and CSIC, have asked the company to withdraw this proposal forward to negotiate a less severe adjustment.

Since the entity no longer suspended dialogue in order to pick up after Christmas, after having received an opinion from Brussels.

CSF injection is expected to sign could be matched imposing layoffs of the 5,500 employees of the firm (in Bankia required output Novagalicia 6,000 workers and up to 2,500).

While the command is called, the union CSIC has formally requested the Bank of Spain to intervene and dismiss Liberbank their managers.

PROTEST IN VILLA FOR NATURA layoffs ESPAIS BALEAR

DIARIODEIBIZA.ES - IBIZA

Fifty-workers as public company Natura Espais IBANAT Balearic and has concentrated on Vara de Rey to protest the dismissal of three of his companions.

The management of Natura Balearic Espais been reported suppression of 22 seats occupied and 24 vacant posts in the organization of the public company, through a statement.

The Natura Espais template is thus reduced from 113 to 91 workers, a move that is part of the process of public sector restructuring instrumental Baleares, which provides integration of Natura Espais IBANAT with a single company in 2013.

Of the 22 seats occupied, 17 corresponded to Mallorca, Ibiza and three to two to Menorca.

The Government has stressed that these layoffs do not affect the brigades of preventing and extinguishing forest fires.

Ibiza layoffs have hit a naturalist, a technique and a worker of biodiversity parks Ses Salines and Es Vedra.

ADVISORY WILL USE A HUNGER STRIKE BY BOARD layoffs.

SEVILLA

They can not take more. And they have decided to make clear their displeasure against cuts policy of Andalusia in emphatic: calling an indefinite hunger strike at the gates of the Parliament of Andalusia.

According to ABC said platform members' Rights Labor with "twenty to thirty-workers affected by layoffs as the Andalusian Employment Service (SAE), the so-called employment counselors, will second this protest, coinciding with the celebration of the Whole autonomic House debates the budget of the Board of Andalusia in 2013.

The protest is motivated by the decision of the autonomous agency under the Ministry of Employment to dismiss from January 1 next to the 413 employment counselors working in offices guiding the unemployed whose contracts were being funded by the state.

He has sent a letter informing them their dismissals and pay them by asking them only 8 days per year worked, the compensation provided for temporary contracts.

The SAE and ignores the judgments of the social courts for affected tens of recognizing the situation and admits that the undefined public agency committed a "clear legal fraud" to entrust tasks that were not defined in the program state level for which they were hired.

Unlike other autonomous communities that before the suspension of the state program that defrayed have chosen to continue to afford their own budgets to these employees, the Andalusian has chosen to terminate their contracts from next year and keep offices SAE to all staff from the former Andalusian Foundation for Training and Employment (FAFFE).

For this group, this is a clear grievance policy. "While the 826 advisers and employment promoters are dismissed because he says the State Budget not include budgets, the Board held a round of 23 million euros to cover payroll FAFFE staff," the spokesman has denounced the platform, Lidia Chacon, and one of the promoters of the hunger strike.

He recalled that this staff does not have access to the databases of jobseekers who visit the offices, but "from the SAE are forcing the unemployed to seal the internet even though many users can not do it."

The wave of layoffs at the agency is being an authentic Andalusian tsunami: the 700 local employment agents, known as Alps, add the 826 counselors and job developers.

Suman 1526 workers, ex-workers almost as many as the FAFFE went through organizational realignment of the Board, the reviled "law of cronyism."

Hoteliers predict a wave of layoffs if not recovered OCCUPATION

ALICANTE.

The Provincial Costa Blanca launches a promotional campaign in Madrid.

The tourism industry of the Costa Blanca has so far resisted as a titan of a crisis that has severely damaged the other economic sectors in the province.

However, their defense springs are already stretched as a result of the recession is prolonged in time and the level of consumption of Spanish households has collapsed without remission.

The latest data on hotel occupancy and is endorsed. And the alarm has reached such a degree that from the employers predict a wave of layoffs if demand does not resume imminently.

In November the average occupancy in Alicante establishments has come to fall to more than seven percentage points over the same month last year. A rate adjustment in matching the two associations.

Hosbec monthly average occupation number of the province, including the establishment of Benidorm, in a 61% occupancy rate, which reflects a decrease of 7.5 points.

And, on the other hand, the Provincial Association of Hotels Alicante (APHA), which brings together the entire supply of the capital, the rate reached 44.04 remained in the%, 7.16 points less.

Moreover, the worst performance has occurred in the second half of the month, where hotel occupancy has dropped more than 14 points, with an average of 27.2% poor.

And while companies are trying by all means to cushion the fall, the reality is that the situation is so complicated that "it would appear difficult to overcome," as stress from APHA, adding the fact that many hotels " for months have crossed the red line that puts them in economic losses have accumulated since 2009. "

And, despite this, "continued employment has been constant over the years" but insisted that "it will be difficult to maintain this commitment and many jobs will be at risk if not recovered occupancy figures for viability in the coming months. "

In the case of the city of Alicante fall looked "inevitable in light of the provisions and the absence of events that could involve a replacement of the Volvo Ocean Race last year, both favored both visitor arrivals in October as in November. " Elche suffer similar declines, with an occupancy rate of 44.52%, and a drop of 8 points.

What is clear is that the relative recovery of the international market during the current year, which primarily benefits Benidorm, not worth the bloody fall of data from the domestic market, which is a reflection of the economic situation.

Meanwhile, the Provincial Tourism with a view to help the industry has launched a campaign to attract bookings from tourists from Madrid.

Within it bypasses the Metro and have since late November with digital media in which the image appears the province is looking to reach a large number of users by the projection with these formats.

Tourism deputy, Joaquin Albaladejo said yesterday that this promotion aims to attract tourists from the capital and that autonomy.

The campaign slogan is 'Live your dreams', with an image-based creativity combining photographs of different scenarios in the province.

In suburban network has 80 brackets installed on the platforms of the major stations, home daily passenger flow of over one million and a half.

While monopoles 'led' digital installed in more traffic bypasses can be viewed daily by 2.2 million vehicles.

Layoffs in Box3 INDUIGNAN TO TRADE UNIONS

Unions represented in Caja Inmaculada (CAI), the major partner Box3 bank, reacted with outrage to the restructuring plan announced by the group, also comprising Caja Badajoz and Caja Burgos Circle.

The proposed adjustment includes closing 187 offices and laying off 592 workers - a total of 1,600 - in the headquarters and branches of Aragon, Extremadura and Burgos claims 20 to 28 days per year worked to a maximum of 18 monthly.

So much so, that the initial response of UGT, CCOO and outright rejection ASIPA was the setting, even with the risk that this could lead to the breakdown of the merger with Ibercaja and the intervention of the entity from the Bank of Spain, as he assured them the address of the entity.

But the response of the three forces unit union is that "this proposal, as it is conceived, can not be signed." And so you'll be taken to their members at meetings planned. The call for demonstrations, which hinted unions shall be fixed by the verdict of its 2,600 employees, of which almost 25% will be affected by layoffs.

Today, Box3 address and unions have only ten days to get a deal to take him to Brussels, to be decided on the plan of viability of the institution.

UGT, CCOO and ASIPA fear that the 592 layoffs are only the tip of the iceberg, since most extinctions provide a second phase that would close the completion of the merger with Ibercaja and ending in 2014.

Thus, this first set will serve to force the return of the bodies in their traditional territories, so that affected areas of expansion.

This would reduce to a minimum the headquarters of Caja Badajoz and Caja Burgos Circle whose employees would be offered a transfer to Zaragoza.

This situation, according to unions, would cause an "increase in the workforce" in Zaragoza. Only now total Ibercaja and CAI thousand workers in their headquarters, Burgos has 166 employees and Badajoz, 122.

 "Between March 2013 and December 2014 will close the integration process, but there will be a lot of duplication and overlap office" union representatives argued.

For now, "the party pay Box3" apostillaron ironically. For this reason, called for unity of forces Ibercaja workers, because "this is not a problem that affects only the template Box3 but also Ibercaja, Aragon and small municipalities."

Union representatives spared no adjectives in the press conference together. "This is the worst sector adjustment plan", they said, even though the entities comprising Box3 aid have not needed so far underlined ASIPA representatives and CCOO, and Michelangelo Sarrato Fernando Villalba, respectively. "Unacceptable", "unfair" and "brutal" were some of the beads used.

 Nor spared criticism of those responsible for the entity in recent years and to the politicians who have sat on the boards of directors and to the Government of Aragon to "look the other way," they said. Also claimed the presence of a representative in the negotiations Ibercaja

Victoria Camarena (UGT) was blunt: "This template will not pay for the excesses of executives and politicians who have sat on the boards." "They want - abounded - load us with responsibility for what may happen to an entity centennial. Responsibility is theirs alone."

TELEMADRID already filed your ERE, IN WHICH SHALL NOT ANY OF CLAIMS OF TYRABAJADORES.

The address Telemadrid ERE finally submitted to the Directorate General of Employment. For those affected, 925 in total, nearly 80 percent of the workforce-strike remains in the chain.

Is also protesting the attitude of managers who have failed to reflect one of the demands of the workers in the document.

According to the council, the ERE is based on a report by Deloitte, Cuatrecasas that "has cost 160,000 euros" and which seeks to justify "a business and ideological cleansing".

Over the next 30 days, management is required to meet with the committee at least three times. According to sources from the Press Association of Madrid (APM), there is no prospect that these meetings will take place.

76 layoffs at Brus ELCIERRE TAUSTE BY REFRIGERATION

Brus Refrigeration Company of Spain, specialized in manufacturing refrigerators cooling circuits, has announced it will close its plant in Tauste, which has a staff of 76 employees, of whom 85% are women.

The decision is that the plant has lost its main contract customers, the appliance manufacturer Fagor Basque, who was spending 75% of production, sources of UGT.

For this reason, the company owned by the multinational Bundy Refrigeration (held by the venture capital fund, Capital Partners) considered not viable continuity of the plant after twelve years of activity.

Most of the staff will be dismissed on 31 December, while the rest will emerge progressively until March.

The remaining production of 25%, for the manufacturer Bosch, will be transferred to a plant that has the group in Turkey.

The company argues that only with this request can not continue working for Tauste.

The company has offered high compensation marked by law (20 days per year worked with a maximum of 12 months), a proposal that has been flatly rejected by the committee.

"We will not allow workers to leave with 20 days," said Jose Juan Arceiz yesterday, MCA UGT secretary general of Aragon, who considered "fair" compensation for unfair dismissal (45 days). In addition, the company claimed that "fighting for the business and find new customers" to avoid having to close the plant.

Refrigeration Brus, who landed in Tauste twelve years ago, began to feel the effects of the crisis in 2009.

That year ERE applied a 100-day suspension for the drop in orders affecting 50 employees.

Problems continued to alleviate their condition and last February the City Council decided to lower Tauste 15% rent municipal ship occupies estate company in Las Rozas.

Recalling this support, Tauste Mayor, Miguel Angel French, lamented that the closure of the plant is now irreversible, "I have failed the primary client and the numbers do not come out." "We have to try to find some kind of company that comes to fill this gap, but it will be difficult," he said

SAN ANDRES fall between 6 and 9 planned layoffs GARDENS TO ASSUME

Having exhausted all possible options to try to save jobs, the mayor of San Andrés del Rabanedo has made official the impossibility of subrogation contract employees nine gardens that since last Thursday star in an enclosure in the plenary hall.

One possibility which removed the former government team that closed a concert with the dealership that besides the immediate cause of eight employees, did not contemplate surrogacy contract workers.

"From the first time we tried to find an alternative for the workers to do their jobs because they're working copies. However, the possibility that we have been looking for, based on the legal reports, it is absolutely illegal. "

An inability to personally moved Mayor San Andrés to three representatives of these workers who were again reiterated that the City maintained a management contract services and to ultimately be Raga who should demand explanations.

Also, Chamorro has secured how his view behind Raga workers there extreme manipulation by the PSOE, ultimately to blame for their employment status.

"It is incomprehensible that the PSOE is in front of all these manifestations and appear as the savior of these employees when Maria Eugenia Gancedo, former mayor, was she who caused this economic situation and that he signed the contract knowing Raga know what the consequences once you finalize the contract. "

In this new scenario that drawing, the government team of San Andrés has understood that the only solution is to service reorganization and reallocation of personnel who are already in the Hall.

To do this, from the Department of Personnel has started a record for the redeployment of workers so that those who want to spend to provide housekeeping and grounds maintenance to apply moved.

An alternative that also mean that the adjustment plan parallel negotiating committee and Personal councilor between 6 and 9 reduce redundancies initially set at 42. "When carrying out this reorganization will take to house staff will mean that the adjustment plan can be avoided between 6 and 9, depending on the qualified individuals who count," said Councilwoman Services , Noelia Álvarez, which ensures that the process will be closed on Monday at which it will conduct a study urgently.

Thus, the government team is confident that in the shortest possible term, and can have gardens brigade and remember that in any case the municipality animals are being treated by members of Civil Protection.

Qingdao CAM 205 compulsory redundancies COMMUNICATING IN ERE

Banco Sabadell CAM has informed the labor authority to produce a total of 205 extinctions included in the Record of Employment Regulation (ERE), although the direction of the bank expected to occur disaffection of people on this list coming months, so the final number to the end of the first quarter of 2013 "is much lower," according to union sources have reported.

Of these workers that will be forced low, about 20 do their work in the bank's headquarters in Alicante, while the branch network throughout the country there is no low, as indicated sources of the entity. The agreement between Banco Sabadell and the unions representing the staff of the CAM reduced to 1,250 people affected by ERE.

This agreement included fifty early retirements, transfers to places where Sabadell has needs and layoffs, for which fixed compensation of 35 days per year worked with a maximum of 150,000 euros.

As compensation, the entity set at 35 days per year worked, with a minimum of 30,000 euros and a maximum of 150,000 euros.

In addition, those employees whose salary is less than 30,000 euros will receive a $ 10,000 bonus, which will reach 15,000 euros in case of salary above that figure.

Regarding early retirement from age 55, sets a ceiling of 245,000 euros for availing themselves voluntarily in the first 15 days and 80 percent of net salary until age 63.

In the case of shipments, has offered the opportunity to relocate to other centers of Banco Sabadell as required and governed by the same conditions as those given in the collective agreement.

In extinctions with the possibility of return, Banco Sabadell offered 20 days with a minimum salary of 10,000 euros and, if not to effect the return, maximum compensation for unfair dismissal under current legislation in force plus a bonus of 10,000 euros .

Finally, compared to 111 employees with special working, the agreement stated that these perceived 80 percent of gross wages.

Aragonese SUPPORT WORKERS TO AVOID CAI nearly 600 LAYOFFS

Reuters

Aragonese today announced it will support the measures taken Caja Inmaculada workers to avoid laying off 600 raised in the plan merger with Ibercaja.

The spokesman and deputy parliamentary group of CHA, and José Luis Nieves Ibeas Soro spokesman in the city of Zaragoza, Juan Martin, and Deputy Secretary General of CHA political relations, Juan Campos, met with union representatives Miguel Angel Villalba, Alberto Salas and Victoria Camarena.

CHA leaders have shared concerns of workers and have them sent to support the measures taken to prevent the fusion process running on the terms proposed.

CHA has also shown its concern over the impact of the closure of 187 offices in the service offered to clients of CAI, especially in rural areas.