The employers’ association of the textile trade reactivates the dialogue with the unions to unblock the negotiation of the first state agreement
Significant movement in the textile trade sector. The Spain Textile Retail Association (ARTE), The employers’ association that brings together companies as important as Inditex, Mango, Mayoral, Tendam and Uniqlo, has called this Monday to the unions to a new meeting of the negotiating commission next November 19 to obtain the signature of the first the Textile and Footwear Trade. The last time the parties met was on April 10. The boss has informed that at the meeting she is going to present “the sector’s proposal approved unanimously with which it is intended to expedite the signing of the first state collective agreement for the textile trade.” Regarding it, no details have yet emerged.
From ARTE they have highlighted that with this new labor framework they seek to “guarantee the stability and equity of more than 100,000 professionals in the sector, especially women, and all the companies that make it up.” In addition, they added, they seek to “promote an agreement that improves the current situation” both from the point of view of security and from that of achieve the greatest homogeneity of working conditions within this sector, “with the territorial particularities, established by law.”
The negotiation is reactivated after a break of several months, since the parties last saw each other last April. From ARTE they hope that the talks will speed up after the two-year slowdown caused by the conflict between the unions FETICO and UGT. It is worth remembering that ARTE is the employer’s association that brings together the main textile giants such as Inditex (ZARA, Pull &Bear, Bershka…), Bimba and Lola, Mango, Tendam (Cortefiel, Pedro del Hierro…), Primark AWWG (Pepe Jeans Londo, Hackett…), Punt Roma, Parfois and Uniqloamong others.
