Today we share this news of interest for the footwear sector.
We share the same published in the DIARIO ALICANTE PLAZA.
The Valencian Association of Footwear Employers(Avecal) proposes a wage increase of 11.5% for employees in the footwear sector, which would be effective for the next four years. The proposal put forward by the footwear employers’ association of the Valencian Community to the unions present at the negotiating table,
For the president of Avecal, Marián Cano, “the rejection of the unions to this wage proposal, which even improves the conditions that civil servants and public workers will receive next year, is not understood”. “We believe it is a good proposal, sensible and reasonable, which is born with the idea of alleviating the rise in costs caused by high inflation and mitigate the loss of purchasing power that employees are experiencing footwear due to the rise in consumer prices,” says Cano. Just this Thursday the unions have called a protest
unions have called a protest at the headquarters of Avecal for improvements in their agreement.
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Thus, the agreement suggested by the Valencian footwear employers’ association includes a 4% increase from July 1 for 2022, a 3% increase for 2023, 2.5% for 2024 and 2% more for 2025, a last increase that would be revised according to the real CPI at the end of the term, capped at 2% or the same proposal placing the increase for 2022 at 2.5% from January 1. The proposal was presented to the unions at the end of June of this year, and since then no progress has been made with the union partners involved in the negotiation.
“Despite the great economic uncertainty, the foreseeable economic recession that may come to Spain and the increase in the cost of raw materials, energy costs and problems with supplies, footwear entrepreneurs are making a major effort to increase wages, and that employees in the sector do not lose their purchasing power,” said the president of Avecal.
For this reason, Avecal urges the unions to continue the negotiation process. “We are still at the negotiating table and we have not left it at any time since we started it, we are still willing to negotiate and we are open to it. We want to achieve a pact that benefits all footwear employees, but that allows the footwear sector to face the very difficult economic situation in which it finds itself,” emphasizes Cano.
