The union of construction workers claims that the government has not yet set the salary guidelines and they are delaying the negotiations of the item.
He Single National Union of Construction and Annexes (Sunca) will hold a national strike next Thursday the 22nd, and will move to the offices of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) after a “negotiation deadlock” with the government.
The construction union continues with the measures of force “in the framework of the fight for the signing of a new collective agreement for the sector”, and announced one more step after what they consider to be zero progress in the talks with the MTSS, from where —according to the union— they do nothing more than delay the start of the round of negotiations.
This happens at the gates of the 10th Round of Wage Councils, of which the salary guidelines that will govern the conversations with the 195 branches of activity included in this new negotiation edition have not yet been defined. For this reason, from Sunca they point out that the Executive power puts spokes in the wheel, something that particularly affects the category that claims to be behind in salary matters.
What will the force measures be like?
After carrying out a partial stoppage of activities in the departments of Flowers, Colonia, Soriano, Río Negro, Maldonado, San José and Montevideo last Thursday; the union called a national strike for Thursday the 22nd.
They will also hold a rally at 11 o’clock in front of the MTSS building —located in Juncal between Piedras and Cerrito—, and from there they will march to the headquarters of the Construction Chamberin Soriano and Martínez Trueba, where it will be the central act.
Meanwhile, from today the workers stop working overtimeat the same time that they will carry out uncoordinated assemblies in all workplaces.
“The schedules and characteristics of the strike will be resolved by each departmental management and related branches in a way that guarantees the participation of the entire country in the great mobilization of June 22,” added the union, in this regard.
“Sunca expresses its concern at the lack of responsibility of the executive branch, who called, through the MTSS, to install the negotiation without presenting the salary guidelines for this tenth round one month after the first meeting. In this sense, we state that The business chambers have not given any response to the points presented at the first meeting of the wage council on May 12,” the union said in its statement.
Source: Ambito
