Last night, RTVE and the unions reached an agreement for the Public Corporation staff to return to the 35-hour working day as of this coming Monday, May 1, and not continue with the 37.5-hour weekly day that had been carried out since 2018. A claim for which workers and unions had been fighting for a long time.
In the agreement, in addition to definitively recovering the 35-hour day for the RTVE staff, the Social Action budget is increased, it is agreed to study the different proposals to increase the company's contributions to the Pension Plan, and the rights are guaranteed unions, as reported in a UGT RTVE note.
The union assures that "the forceful demand of the staff, with an exemplary response in the concentrations called by the Inter-Centre Committee, and the unanimous and seamless action of the Strike Committee have made it possible, with an agreement signed and signed by all the trade union organizations with the exception of the CGT, which has abstained".
From the public corporation they have also highlighted, in a statement, that the agreement with the strike committee also implies "the recovery of union rights and a future commitment to increase the social action budget when the regulations allow it."
In this sense, the management of the company values "very positively" having reached this agreement with the pertinent authorizations, although it recognizes that "it has been a difficult process, but very necessary" and that it has been achieved "thanks to the dialogue and collaboration of all parties involved."
The interim president of RTVE and its Board of Directors, Elena Sánchez, has already made progress in her appearance at the Parliamentary Control Commission of RTVE of the Senate on Tuesday that addressing the 35-hour working day was "extremely important" for the company, since it affects the workers of the company in relation to the organization of work.
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