The Autonomous Community and social agents advance social dialogue with the aim of promoting consensual proposals for the improvement of the labor market and the economic development of the Region of Murcia. Thus, the president of the regional Government, Fernando López Miras, held a meeting this Friday morning with the president of the Regional Confederation of Business Organizations of Murcia (Croem), José María Albarracín, and with the general secretaries of the CC OO unions and UGT, Santiago Navarro and Antonio Jiménez, respectively, in order to review issues on which they work, fundamentally with a view to improving the field of occupational health and in the new Strategic Plan for Quality Employment that would be launched in 2025 .
Among the issues discussed also appears the Strategy to combat the Wage Gap in the Region of Murcia 2025-2029, the Plan to combat the underground economy and the aforementioned Occupational Health and Safety Strategy 2024-2028, according to the Executive. autonomous in a statement. Specifically, the latter is scheduled to be signed next Saturday, April 27 at the San Esteban Palace, once the last aspects of negotiations are closed. It would have six axes to ensure that workplaces are healthy, safe and healthy, through the promotion of training, research, dissemination, control, support, management and incentives. Of course, the creation of the figure of the health delegate in companies will remain pending to negotiate in the future.
Likewise, López Miras has highlighted that progress is being made in the Strategy to combat the Wage Gap and the initial draft of the diagnosis of the current situation has already been agreed upon with all participants, which will be completed with non-economic data and the situation of workers. autonomous. To achieve this, we are working on proposing specific proposals. In addition, preliminary studies have begun to prepare the Plan to combat the Irregular Economy in the Region. And, in fact, a study of the current situation has been commissioned from the University of Murcia, through the Economic and Social Council, and the working group will be convened soon to begin joint work with the social and economic agents.
The need to design a true Industrial Strategic Plan for the Region was also put on the table. There is agreement between the business community and union organizations on the importance of establishing a course that favors the growth of industrial activities, beyond those that already have greater weight such as the agri-food sector and the energy sector. Nor did the workers' representatives forget to demand that they be included when preparing the Strategic Tourism Plan over the next ten years.
Social agents request an Industrial Strategic Plan, while valuing the promotion of tripartite social dialogue
“It has been a friendly meeting in which the importance of tripartite agreements between employers, unions and regional Administration in the improvements of the different strategies has been revealed. And the respect, support and identification of the president of the Community has been recorded with social dialogue,” highlights the top representative of Croem. A positive assessment that union leaders also agree with, and they do trust that it will be demonstrated with concrete facts.
Albarracín specifically insists on progress at the negotiating tables for the Strategy for Quality Employment, “which we would like to continue at the current, accelerated pace, so that we can sign it in the coming months if possible.” Furthermore, he adds that “the availability of the three parties to hold periodic meetings and monitor each of the agreements or pacts has been clear and evident.”
The general secretary of CC OO emphasized that the occupational health strategy “is fundamental in this Region, since we had 55 deaths in 2022 and although it dropped to 32 in 2023, however, they are very high figures that place us conceptually to the tail of Spain”. Therefore, he maintains that “the strategy has to serve with the 120 actions that we have included, with very clear objectives that go in the direction of reducing health damage derived from work.” So “we are committed to improving management within prevention in companies, but also the management system with SMEs, micro-businesses and the self-employed.”
Climate change
Santiago Navarro also emphasized the inclusion of the climate change factor in said strategy, within a document that he considers “alive” – at the time of its continuous updating -, having become a fundamental element, especially in a sector such as agriculture, “where we work very exposed to high temperatures, which worries us a lot, so it is about working on the organization of work so that people are as little exposed as possible.”
For his part, the regional leader of UGT claims that “we have ratified the commitment that social agents and the regional government have to maintain a live tripartite social dialogue that is effective on the working and living conditions of citizens.” And that, in his opinion, “so far it has been fruitful, agile and intense.”
Antonio Jiménez concludes with respect to the need for a regional industrial plan with “sufficient economic resources”, since “the productive fabric we have is very concentrated in agriculture, together with a very atomized service sector, so we need an industry that , beyond its best results in recent years, the truth is that it continues to be burdened by historical shortcomings and weaknesses: medium-low technological intensity, little investment in R&D, very localized exports in Europe and less diversification.
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