Labour Inspectors to protest today

The early call for elections has disrupted the calendar of mobilisations called by Labour Inspectors across the country, who have now decided to toughen their protests to pressure the acting government comply with the agreement it signed on November 26, 2021, published in the BOE on December 3. An agreement that included the modernisation of this public body, a reclassification of positions, a salary increase and a greater allocation of places, with an approved budget of 23 million.

“We have changed the hourly strikes in the Labour Inspection for protest concentrations in capitals throughout Spain that will begin this Wednesday, the 7th -in Zaragoza, in front of the doors of the Trovador building- and an indefinite strike from the 26th if the Government does not fulfil its commitment,” says inspector Ana Ercoreca de la Cruz, president of the Union of Labour and Social Security Inspectors.

“We do not rule out if the Government does not listen to us take other measures, still to be decided by the Platform (made up of eight unions), such as stopping the guards that do not pay us or the campaigns that they ask of us”.

Inspectors, sub-inspectors, technicians and all the administrative staff of this administrative body, supported by their own unions and generalists, are willing to “give the battle all together” so that the acting government complies.

It cannot be, they say, using the saying that “in the blacksmith’s house, a wooden frying pan” and that within the Inspection there is “salary discrimination with level 26 colleagues who, doing the same functions as those of 27, charge 300 euro less, that they win it in the courts, and the Government does not change it or that it maintains the same salaries of the personnel without adapting them to the greater workload”

The Labour Inspectorate blame the Minister of the sector, Yolanda Díaz, for “not having lifted a finger” and that of the Treasury, María Jesús Montero, for “burying”, on May 24, the plan to reorganise and improve the working conditions of this organisation. After two and a half years of inaction, they ask them to abide by it now.

All it takes is a favourable report from the Civil Service, they say. Just as, remember, they called off the strike in March 2022 because the Government, by resolution of April 22, assured that it was going to comply with the plan, they now give it another chance to “be serious” and do it.

Otherwise, they warn, they will take the conflict to its ultimate consequences and denounce before the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that the Inspection in Spain fails to comply with its own agreement.

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