This is how the Cádiz metal strike was resolved: 52 hours (and a quarter) of meetings and inflation, omnipresent

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The

in the province of Cádiz is on the way to becoming a bad memory of demonstrations, barricades and blocked roads.

With the approval, on Thursday, by the workers' assemblies of the agreement reached the day before by the unions and the employers, they ended ten days of indefinite strike in a sector that employs approximately 20,000 people and that blew up peace. social in a very punished province.

But the road to the agreement - which includes an annual salary increase of 2% and revisions of the CPI - has been

, with a certain risk of running aground in the most complicated moments.

EL MUNDO has had access to the details of this negotiation between the Federation of Metal Companies of the Province of Cádiz (Femca) and the unions CCOO and UGT and under the mediation of the Andalusian Council of Labor Relations, attached to the

of the Junta de Andalucía and that it has played a key role in solving a conflict that threatened to set fire to more than a few barricades.

To reach an understanding, a little more than

have been necessary

, exactly 52 hours and fifteen minutes, throughout five meetings, some of them literally endless and in all, absolutely in all, the biggest obstacle was called inflation. .

The uncontrolled

that is being registered in Spain -and in the rest of the world- due to the supply and transport crisis and the increase in demand has played a major role in the labor conflict in Cadiz, according to a internal report on the negotiation held by this newspaper.

Inflation, higher than 5% globally during the month of October, and the "uncertainty" that it has generated has been at the origin of the strike and has been a constant cloud that has threatened the talks.

So much so that the

to compensate for the difference between the agreed salary increase and the real increase in the cost of living has been the last pending fringe to be agreed.

Before the strike began, the Extrajudicial Service for the Resolution of Labor Disputes of Andalusia (Sercla), dependent on the CARL, already tried to deactivate it with a

four-hour

that ended, however, in failure.

With the indefinite strike already underway, it was the Employment Council led by Rocío Blanco that entrusted CARL with a new

, which the parties accept on the condition that the meetings be in person and that they be held in Seville.

Four face-to-face meetings

From that moment on, the negotiators were summoned to the CARL headquarters in the Andalusian capital on four other occasions, in

, some of them almost marathon.

Of all of them there was one, the one that began on the 17th -and ended the next day- which, according to the data collected, served to unblock the negotiation.

There were 22 hours of dialogue - in two sessions - in which the negotiators already confirmed "rapprochement and convergence" on certain

.

There was no agreement on the main thing, but it was a start.

After that there was a third transition meeting, in which

prevailed

, before reaching the fourth and final meeting, the one on the 24th, which started well - agreeing on the duration of the new agreement - and ended better.

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