MADRID, 1 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The soccer players of the F League have called a strike this Friday for the first two days of the domestic championship “given the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory agreement with the employer” in view of the new Collective Agreement, according to the Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE).
This union, FUTPRO, Futbolistas ON, UGT and CC.OO, which make up the social bank for negotiation to modify and improve the Collective Agreement for top category players, “have sent a letter to the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA), as a prior act of conciliation, and communication to the labor authority (Ministry of Labor and Social Economy) about the call for a strike for the first two days of League F”.
This call for a strike, “if the parties in SIMA do not reach an agreement”, at which time the letter would be formally written to the employer, would begin at 00:00 on Friday, September 8 and would continue until 24:00 on Sunday 10, and later, from 00:00 on Friday 15 to 24:00 on Sunday 17.
“After more than a year of negotiations, and given the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory agreement with the employers, the unions, as representatives of the workers, have been forced to call a two-day strike,” the statement said.
The social bank emphasizes that the promotion of this strike, “to which all the soccer players who provide services in clubs and SAD” of the F League are called, “is the result of the stagnation in the negotiations of the Collective Agreement.” “The aim is to advance in these negotiations, achieve fair and dignified treatment for the soccer players, address and reduce the existing wage gap,” among other issues, the unions expose, “they add.
“AFE wants to underline that it is defending the legitimate present labor rights of soccer players and, above all, future ones, through the legitimate right to strike, showing its commitment to benefit the new generations,” stressed the union chaired by David Aganzo.
