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There will be a general strike on January 5 and 7, and partial stoppages on January 12
The trade unions CCOO and UGT have called a general strike for Correos postal workers in Spain on January 5 and 7 and partial stoppages on January 12 to protest “against the dismantling of Correos delivery services, precariousness and staff cuts”.
They claim that the new model of Spain’s state postal company “entails a reduction of spaces and people to make way for the commercial and profitable parcels of the subsidiary Correos Express, which they intend to subcontract to precarious workers, as was already done in the middle of the pandemic”.
What’s more, unions argue that postmen will now have to cover greater distances by having to take on more sections because the workforce has been cut drastically. In fact, 7,000 jobs have been lost in the last two years.
A full 75% of the union representation at Correos rejected the company’s new direction on December 16, which means “it lacks democratic legitimacy to be applied”.
“This is only the beginning of an aggression that the company wants to culminate on January 15 with the total change of the delivery and distribution service of Correos, which cannot be left without a comprehensive mobilising response at the state level,” said the CCOO and UGT in a joint statement.
For its part, Correos announced last week the company’s largest public offer of employment in recent decades, allowing 5,377 people to be employed at the what is “the largest public company in the country” to work with permanent contracts in the delivery, sorting and customer service departments.
These positions are expected to be opened up to the public in the first half of 2022, with the interviews and tests scheduled to take place next November.
The company has also come under fire over its handling of Brexit, with Correos workers charging VAT for letters from the UK even though they don’t have any monetary value.
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