Spanish footwear workers accept new pay deal
21/06/2012
With high levels of unemployment across the country and many footwear jobs vanishing during the current economic crisis, workers have agreed to small pay rises, 0.5% this year, and 0.6% in the following two years.
The deal will affect around 22,000 workers at 1,400 footwear manufacturing firms. Workers are also in line to receive a bonus payment of EUR 160 each before the end of 2012 to compensate for rises in the cost of living.
A spokesman for the UGT union, Juan Antonio Maciá, told local media at the end of negotiations: “It’s a strange deal, just like the times we are all living in at the moment.”
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