After 26 days of escalating actions, putting staff on the Catalonian paint producer Acrylicos Vallejo have received vital victories on the negotiating desk. Vallejo manufactures the Recreation Colour and Mannequin Colour line paints which are most popularly used for miniatures and wargames. In response to a submit on the Catalonian labor group CGT’s Bluesky web page, a pre-agreement has been signed that will assure staff a wage improve, a parental support package deal, new office harassment protocols, and occupational security enhancements.
As beforehand reported by kritikanews, almost all the 85 staff had begun a 16-day partial work stoppage in late November earlier than escalating to a full strike on Dec. 11 — a 12 months after Vallejo had been bought by funding agency ProA Capital for slightly below $53 million. Within the days main as much as this announcement, CGT works council president Patricia Pérez described the alleged actions of Vallejo administration during the last 12 months in an article first printed in Catalan by Poder In style and commissioned for English translation by Rascal Information.
In response to Pérez, the alleged situations on the Vallejo manufacturing unit weren’t solely harmful, however not in compliance with Spanish legislation. Along with an absence of worker showers (a requirement for corporations which deal with harmful chemical substances) and equipment in disrepair, Pérez claimed that panels from the manufacturing unit ceiling have been usually damaged and falling, permitting rain to fall on the manufacturing unit flooring. The interpretation describes an alleged “authoritarian” work setting, with unreasonable expectations for employee productiveness that led to CGT submitting a lawsuit in opposition to Vallejo administration. Pérez additionally claimed that the corporate’s security protocols are “biased” and painting “sufferer[s] of harassment because the perpetrator.” One worker, who filed a criticism in opposition to the corporate, was allegedly fired three days afterward the grounds of “low productiveness.”
Pérez instructed Poder In style that the labor actions had pushed Vallejo administration to “put aside any discussions of productiveness” and start “real negotiations.” Although these preliminary wage propositions have been offered as “minimal” within the Poder In style article, the ultimate agreements introduced within the CGT social submit embody: a wage improve of as much as €3000 per 12 months, a social paternity package deal of €500 for the beginning of a kid, with €200 training allowance for every little one under 25 years of age — an quantity which should be multiplied by 1.5 for single-parent households.
