Spain - Preliminary agreement at Opel Zaragoza - March 16, 2010

After ten hours of negotiations, the management of the General Motors (GM) Opel plant in Figueruelas, near Zaragoza, and the workers’ monitoring commission of the plant reached a preliminary agreement to be ratified by employees. As reported by the UGT Secretary General in the plant, Peter Bona, the agreement implies lay-offs for 900 of 7,000 Opel Zaragoza workers. For the remaining workforce, a collective agreement will be in force including a 1% pay increase in 2010 and 2% increase each in 2011 and 2012.

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This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.