The Negotiating Commission of the Renault Collective Agreement was established this Tuesday and in it the company has offered a transition year of the 2021-2024 agreement in which workers would maintain the current working conditions, labor regulations and salary tables.
The director of Human Resources of Renault Group in Spain, Reyes Torres, has explained the situation of uncertainty that the automotive sector is experiencing internationally and that is caused by the regulatory tsunami, the demands for decarbonization, digitalization, technological volatility and raw material prices or the transformation of the workforce.
This context prevents having a clear visibility of the demand, which is why the company has proposed that the year 2025 be a transition year for Renault Group Spain, proposing to extend the current collective agreement (2021-2024) to the year 2025, thus prolonging one year the collective agreement in force in the currently existing conditions with regard to working hours, labor regulations and salary tables. In this way, it would be possible to position the Renault Group factories in Spain in the best competitive conditions for possible future awards.
The Agreement Negotiating Commission, which will be made up of 13 members of the workers’ representation (4 UGT, 3 CCOO, 2 SCP, 2 CGT, 1 CSIF and 1 TU) will meet again on November 6 and 19.
UGT has explained that the company’s management has appealed to the “bad times” that the automobile sector is going through, in general, and Renault “in particular” due to the low production volumes that exist in all brands due to the “uncertainty” of the CAFE regulations that come into force in 2025 “and the consequent sanctions for manufacturers who do not comply with the percentages of registrations in 0-emission vehicles”.
Millionaire sanctions
The union has assured that the Renault Management has referred to “the worst situation known in all of history” after which he predicted that with current manufacturing the penalties could exceed 15,000 million euros for all builders, which will lead to “staff reductions.”
“We have saved the situation, with the consequent production problems, due to the six products that we are making in the Spanish factories, but the forecasts they have are that since January there have been drops in production”, the company has argued.
UGT has informed the company that the worker representatives are unaware of the situation in the sector, although it has agreed that these are “very complicated times” and has claimed that Renault-Spain is “avoiding” this situation due to the agreements reached with this union.
“At Renault we have always known how to solve problems with agreements and now the new Management of the Company will know if it wants to continue with that path or with a very different one”, has settled the union that sees an agreement as “unaffordable” without the award of an Industrial Plan and with a salary freeze as the company has proposed. .
That said, it has announced that it will consult with its members about the proposal, although it has announced that will not reach any agreement “that does not improve purchasing power of Renault Spain workers and maintain employment”.
For its part, Comisiones Obreras has asked the management of Renault to renegotiate the collective agreement in 2025 for the group’s workers in Valladolid, Palencia and Madrid in order to include a reduction in working hours, improvements in salaries and the hours pool.
In a statement sent to the media after the constitution this Tuesday of the Collective Agreement Negotiating Commission, in which the manufacturer offers the workforce a transition year of the agreement signed in 2021, the unions have stated that the next “will be a good agreement or it won’t be.
The union “outright rejects the proposal” that the company has sent them not to introduce any changes next year, which would mean that the French automobile group’s staff “would continue to earn the same, without any improvement.” CCOO understands that the time to negotiate “is good” and that workers have to be compensated for the “efforts made during recent years.”
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