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Date Published: 08/02/2023

Workers at the Cartagena-Cadiz company making UK Royal Navy ships fight back over pay dispute

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Employees at Navantia are refusing to work overtime and on weekends until their demands are met

Workers at the Cartagena-Cadiz company making UK Royal Navy ships fight back over pay dispute

Workers at Navantia, the Spanish shipbuilding company based in Cartagena, Cadiz and Ferrol, have declared that they intend to maintain the ‘non-collaboration measures’ they first adopted on January 16 until they get the “3.5% wage increase due for 2022 and… the professional reclassification agreed in the 2018-2021 agreement”, according to the CCOO union in a statement.

Navantia was recently awarded a contract worth 1.6 billion GBP to build three vessels for the UK Royal Navy fleet as part of the ‘Team Resolute’ project. Beginning in 2025, the initiative is expected to create more than 14 million work hours in Spain and the United Kingdom.

For now, though, employees are undertaking measures such as not working overtime or on weekends and public holidays until the pay dispute is resolved.

This was agreed at an assembly held yesterday at the gates of its headquarters, sponsored by the Intercentres Committee, and which also took place simultaneously in the work centres of Ferrol, Galicia and in the Bay of Cadiz, Andalucia.

Navantia has agreed to present a new Strategic Plan in Madrid on February 14, at which union bosses will be present and hope to negotiate the collective agreement until the pending issues from 2022 are all fully resolved.

Image: CCOO Navantia Cartagena

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