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Collective bargaining for Alicante footwear component suppliers

01/12/2011
Producers and wholesalers of leather and other materials in the footwear supply chain in the Spanish province of Alicante, the country’s most important footwear manufacturing centre, will have to negotiate a collective pay agreement for their workers next year.

Mainstream trade union organisation UGT has given Spain’s Association of Component Manufacturers for Footwear and Leathergoods (AEC) the authority to represent the members it has among the estimated 1,500 workers in the province who work in approximately 300 companies that make or distribute leather and other footwear components. Most of these companies are small.

AEC president, Manuel Román, has told local media that employees of companies in this “important part of the local footwear industry” have never had this type of representation before and said his organisation would do its best for them.

Mr Román said discussions with employers would begin on January 19.





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