España

 

Meeting scheduled for today fails

CCOO and UGT seek to reschedule meeting

with the Calvo Group

 

The meeting scheduled for today in Madrid between the Agrofood Federations of Spain’s trade union confederations, Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) and General Workers’ Confederation (UGT), and Manuel Calvo Pumpido, delegate board member of the Calvo Group was called off. Cecilia Sanz, general secretary of the CCOO Federation, informed the IUF’s Latin American regional office this morning of the cancellation, and Sirel spoke with her for a full report

 

 

The general secretary of the CCOO’s Federation of Agrofood workers explained that both federations had requested a meeting with the CALVO Group, suggesting today as a possible date. The company had replied that Manuel Calvo Pumpido, the delegate board member, was traveling at that moment, but did not say that the meeting would not be held on this date. “We have not heard from them yet, and it is likely that the company’s representative has not returned. We have agreed with the UGT Federation to try to contact Calvo again tomorrow to set a new date for the meeting.”

 

As for the purpose of the meeting, Cecilia Sanz said that “We want to present to the company the same demands that SGTIPAC and the IUF are making, that is, that union rights are being violated in Calvo’s El Salvador plant and that the company must reinstate the unionists that were dismissed and maintain the same labor relations it has in all the other plants of the Group, putting an end to current antiunion practices and opening a space up to negotiate with the union, in accordance with to the ILO’s international conventions. In short, we want to support the efforts that are being made by the Union in El Salvador and by the IUF in this case.”

 

The Agrofood Federations of the CCOO and the UGT will do everything possible to have this meeting before August, when summer vacations begins in Europe.

 

The IUF’s regional office therefore remains in state of alert, and will inform immediately when a new date has been set.

Carlos Amorín

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July 25, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

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