Christmas Postal Disruption Threat

Unions representing postal workers in Spain, namely the CC.OO., UGT, CSIF and Sindicato Libre, will begin industrial action from November 6, which is set to last the two month period until Three Kings day, thus disrupting the busy Christmas period.

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The action included fifteen days of protests in different provincial capitals, which will take place in the first half of November, and then three days of strikes scheduled for November 30 and December 21 and 26.

The protest is in demand of “public funding to pay for the universal public postal service provided by the integrated company in SEPI, in addition to the implementation of a multi-year employment plan that reconciles wages, employment and rights, after years of suffocation”, as reported by the unions in a joint statement.

The unions also warn that if no solution is reached, there will be further action into 2019. “It is a necessary measure against the cuts of the previous Government and the continuous lack of postal policies of the current executive. Until it goes from words to deeds, the protests of the postal workers will continue,” the statement continued.

Therefore, the unions call for the employees of Correos, one of the companies with the largest workforce in the country, to support their concentrations , which start on Tuesday in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and continue until the 16th in autonomous capitals, including Madrid on the 14^th.