Overview

• Trade unions CCOO, CSIF, USO and UGT FICA called 11 additional strike days after a June 18 SIMA meeting ended without agreement
• The company’s May 14 ERE aims to cut 54 jobs across five Spanish plants, including 11 positions at Sagunto justified by productive, organizational and technical reasons
• Strike action is scheduled for June 23–25 and on July 2–3, 10–11, 18–19 and 26–27 with a concentration at Fertiberia’s Madrid headquarters on June 24
• Unions denounce the ERE as an attempt at outsourcing and precarizing employment and insist on its immediate withdrawal and the resumption of collective bargaining
• The initial protests on June 5–6 and 11–13 saw massive participation, halting operations at all five plants and triggering traffic disruptions in Sagunto