The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, yesterday asked the CEOE employers to "sit down now" with the unions to negotiate the increase in wages. “I ask the employers, the CEOE, to sit down with the unions to already reach a salary agreement that gives security to the workers,” said Sánchez after being elected president of the Socialist International this weekend. Sánchez also recalled that his government approved the labor reform "agreed" with the social agents, which allowed "advance" in Spain "as never before in stability and labor dignity."
The head of the Executive launched this petition to resume these negotiations after this week the CEOE will ratify the continuity of Antonio Garamendi as president.
Sánchez presses for the resumption of talks that have been totally blocked since before the summer. The salary review clauses have become the great obstacle, since they are essential for the unions and unacceptable for the CEOE. That is why, in the absence of negotiations, the unions called a series of mobilizations that ended for the moment with a demonstration of tens of thousands of people in Madrid on November 3. In any case, it did not help the employers to change their position, and there are still no indications of movements that allow the resumption of talks to set the increase in wages.
