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The local organization of IU-V in Lorca, and regional training coordinators Candi Marín and Jose Luis Alvarez Castellanos, have expressed this morning the support, encouragement and solidarity of their organization towards the nearly two hundred workers of the slaughterhouse of Lorca who have just started a strike before the blockade of the negotiation to revise the collective agreement of the company, update their salary tables and ensure that a series of social rights are reflected in the agreement.
The workers' representatives - there are 180 on the staff - complain that they have been frozen for five years and that this situation has no prospect of changing to the inflexibility of the company to sit down and negotiate, which has already caused a very important loss of purchasing power of their wages.
This is a measure of pressure that will cost workers money and is very difficult to cope with.
Despite this, 90% of the workforce follows the strike, and only 10% -which corresponds in its entirety to the office and administration staff- has decided not to join the strike.
The local and regional representatives of the United Left-Greens say that it is an obligation for them to be on the side of striking workers.
Labor relations in Lorca and in the region of Murcia, which before the crisis were clearly improving, have deteriorated in this time to the detriment of workers to extremes unacceptable.
This deterioration is very noticeable in the primary productive sectors and in the hotel sector, where there is a manifest absence of effective application of labor standards, where the status of workers has disappeared in many cases, and where collective bargaining agreements are few times, wet paper.
Now, the IU-V representatives say, the labor relations in these sectors have practically been dismantled, we are seeing that the business side wants to continue to deepen this gap in the industrial sectors, where union membership is greater and workers have greater capacity to organization and response in defense of their rights.
Not only do they seek to detract from the workers 'incomes and fatten their capital incomes at the expense of them, but their intentions of weakening the workers' responsiveness seem obvious.
That is why it is so important for IU-V to support the pressure measures put in place by them, such as this strike now started at the Lorca slaughterhouse.
It is not a problem of a single company, it is a global problem, when workers lose in a company is lost globally and also weakens the bargaining power in other companies.
That spiral we already know it.
Finally, the representatives of IU-V, have affirmed that they help, much to the business interests of the workers the last two labor reforms of the governments of the PSOE and the PP that have greatly weakened the position of workers in the employment contract and in their labor relations.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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