Unions call for a day of strike and partial stoppages in the rice industry

The UGT Federation of Industry, Construction and Agriculture has announced that rice processing industry workers will strike on December 10 and hold rallies and one-and-a-half-hour stoppages over several days in November due to the blockage of the negotiation of the collective agreement. Rallies are planned at the gates of the rice processing factories starting November 3 and one-and-a-half-hour stoppages per shift for November 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 24, 25, 26, and 27, as detailed in a statement. UGT-FICA has specified that, together with Workers' Commissions (CC.OO), they have submitted a request for mediation to the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA), prior to the start of the mobilization schedule agreed upon by both union organizations as a result of this blockage. In the mediation request, the unions insist that the negotiation of the agreement was blocked after a long negotiation process and a proposal from the employer that, for both unions, was ...