The players of League F, the highest category of women's football, have called a strike for the first two days of the competition, after failing to reach an agreement with the employers to improve the collective agreement.
The unions that are members of the social bank of the negotiation to modify and improve the collective agreement for the women's First Division soccer players, have sent a letter to the SIMA (Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service), as a prior act of communication to the Ministry of Labor and Economy Social regarding the call for a strike for the first two days of League F, if it is not resolved, due to "the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory agreement with the employers."
"The promotion of this strike is the result of the stagnation in the negotiations of the Collective Agreement. The aim is to advance in these negotiations, achieve fair and dignified treatment for the soccer players, address and reduce the existing wage gap," the unions state.
The letter specifies that the unions that make up the social bank (FUTPRO, CC.OO, AFE, Futbolistas ON, UGT) communicated this decision to the labor authority in the following terms: "By means of this letter, they come to give advance notice of the call for a strike "legal call to which all footballers who provide services in sports clubs and corporations of the First Women's Football Division are invited, in the 2023/2024 season, organized by the Professional Women's Football League".
"The social bank has requested a conciliation act at the headquarters of the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service. If an agreement is not reached, the letter calling for a strike will be formally sent to League F," the entity said.
"After more than a year of negotiations, and given the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory agreement with the employers, the unions, as representatives of the workers, have been forced to call two days of strike," the AFE said in a statement.
On August 28, the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, met with Amanda Gutiérrez, president of FUTPRO, to delve into the situation of the working conditions of the players and seek "decent conditions and space free of sexist violence".
The strike would begin, if an agreement is not reached, on September 8, 2023, at 00:00, and its duration will be the first two days of the competition, that is: The first day from September 8 until on the 10th, and the second day from the 15th to the 17th.
