Employees of Spanish consulates in the United Kingdom reduce their strike after negotiating with Foreign Affairs

• Spain More than a month of strike by Spanish labor personnel in the United Kingdom: "The salary is not enough to live on"

The employees of the embassy and the consulates of Spain in

, on strike since March 14, will only make a one-hour weekly strike starting Thursday after verifying progress in the negotiations with the Spanish Government, the committee reported on Wednesday. of strike of the

(PLEX).

In a statement, the committee explains that, after 45 days of indefinite strike to demand salary and labor improvements, on Tuesday they met with the director general of the Foreign Service, who presented them with the solutions proposed by the

(Maeuec).

"In the meeting, the measures were specified to mitigate the loss of wages of the workers and the commitment of the Minister José Manuel Albares with the unions to include the employees of the PLEX in the Spanish Social Security system was reiterated", declares the group. of workers in your note.

The workers consult add that, although the initiatives proposed do not address all their demands, "the assembly has received these advances positively" and has supported "a reformulation of the strike", in order to "reduce the pressure that Spanish citizens have had to suffer" due to the loss of services and to show "their willingness to dialogue with the Administration".

The replacement of the total break by a weekly one "is subject to the implementation of the proposed solutions" and "may be reversed at any time if the group considers it so," they say in their note.

The employees keep the demonstration called for May 7 standing.

The dissatisfied workers have explained that they have been hired under British legislation, which means that the salary increases enjoyed by their civil servant colleagues covered by the Spanish collective agreement are not applied to them, and they are also governed by local regulations that sometimes generate grievances. comparatives.

Among other things, they claim to be attached to the Spanish

because the British "is minimal" (companies or employers are expected to supplement it voluntarily) and, for example, "if someone gets sick, they receive just 90 pounds" gross (some 107 euros, at today's exchange rate) per week.

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