The Generalitat Valenciana, the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV) and the unions UGT-PV and CCOO-PV have agreed this Tuesday, in the first meeting of the Social Dialogue Table of the legislature, to address the situation of sectors in crisis such as ceramics, automotive and even tourism.
It is one of the novelties of the meeting held this Tuesday at the Palau de la Generalitat, with the attendance of President Carlos Mazón, Vice President Vicente Barrera, Vice President Susana Camarero and Councilors Ruth Merino and Nuria Montes. At the table they have agreed to hold four sessions a year, three ordinary and one extraordinary Budget session.
Ceramics or the automotive sector are sectors with specific problems, which will now be addressed in specific meetings in which the Valencian Administration, the company and worker representatives will participate. In the case of the automotive sector, whose instability is linked to Ford Valencia's lack of definition regarding the electric vehicles that the plant must produce in the future, the CCOO-PV's request to launch a table to address the future challenges of the sector.
"We will talk about everything that involves direct and indirect jobs and all the logistics that the automobile sector entails," highlighted Ana García Alcolea, general secretary of the union. In this regard, Ismael Sáez, general secretary of UGT-PV - the majority union at the Valencian plant - has said that "it is difficult to do more than what we have done", but acknowledged that "the sector is subject to a lot of uncertainties and "It seems that the multinational has doubts."
For his part, Mazón has indicated that an industry round table is already underway that addresses the situation of the secondary sector in the Valencian Community and has taken the opportunity to invite unions and workers to participate in the drafting of the new Valencian industrial strategy. "Of course they are going to participate, they have and must participate," he commented, to which he added that the industrial proposal must always be linked to a "European strategy."
Tomorrow he travels to Brussels, where he will participate for the first time in the European Committee of the Regions. Likewise, the head of the Consell has valued the Valencian Community as "one of the few autonomies" that have a table of these characteristics and has expressed his desire for it to "take root and bear fruit in concrete policies."
In parallel, and asked about the situation of social dialogue at the state level, unions and employers have regretted the situation generated in recent weeks. "Political will is not in the same key as before, moving away will always be bad for the general interest of the country," declared Salvador Navarro, president of the CEV.
For Ismael Sáez, "it is regrettable that we have not reached agreements, since the reforms with agreements last and are put into practice with more success" and for Ana García Alcolea, "at the state level there have been some ups and downs that we have not understood and so We have expressed it, but it seems that it is going to be redirected. Hand out", he defended.
