The strike by cleaning and rubbish collection workers in the city of Alicante, which was set for June 16th and 17th and then indefinitely beginning June 25th, was called off yesterday Thursday June 5th, after the workers and the business awarded the contract for this service, Netial, reached an agreement in principle.
The CSIF union, which chairs the company committee, issued a statement confirming this. It stated that this circumstance came about “after a long negotiation process” and praised the deal struck on “significant salary and social benefits” for the workers.
Thus, the committee assessed the agreement as ‘positive and beneficial’, while detailing that, on an economic level, it includes a non-consolidated 1.5 percent pay rise for 2024, as a lump sum; a 3 percent salary increase for 2025, retroactive to January; a 1.25 percent fixed increase for 2026 plus the difference between the civil servant increase (0.25 percent); and a 1.25 percent fixed increase for 2027 plus the difference between the civil servant increase (0.25
Employee representatives also cited various “social advances achieved,” including a Monday-through-Friday schedule with no shifts, internal promotions in categories and specialities, agreed-upon early retirements, and other factors such as shift adjustments or timetables.
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