CCOO demands minimum wages from employers Inditex, Mango and H&M starting at €20,000 per year

CCOO claims that the Spanish Textile Retail Association (ARTE), which includes Inditex, Mango, Primark and H&M, among other fashion brands, Minimum salary up to 26,500 euros, depending on length of service and responsibility. for industry workers as part of negotiations on the first state collective agreement in the textile and footwear trade, the report said.

In particular, the union in its proposal demanded to standardize wage tables upward, guarantee a minimum annual salary for 2025 ranging from 20,000 to 26,500 euros depending on length of service and responsibility, increase wages in accordance with the CPI, improve bonuses and incentives reduce annual working hours to 37.5 hours per week by 2024 and gradually up to 35 hours, measures to reduce bias, and guarantees of voluntariness and compensation in case of opening on Sundays and holidays, among many other proposals.

Thus, at the last meeting at the negotiating table for the agreement of large textile chains, CCOO presented its platform, “thus starting the real negotiations”, in which it reiterates that it will fight for progress in approval of working conditions for more than 100,000 workers.

(Inditex earned 4.102 million from February to October, up 32.5%, after billing 25.609 million)

CCOO sees these negotiations as an opportunity to downsize, standardize upwards, and guarantee conditions huge difference in salary and work time between employees of the same company.

The union therefore called on ARTE, which agreed to study the proposal and respond at the next meeting, to begin launching the project. “real negotiations” which was delayed due to legal discussions about its composition.

New national agreement

“At CCOO we still believe that the table should be the one that was drawn up originally, and not the one that was agreed in October at the request of mainly the UGT – which included Fetiko and the CCOO fell to seven representatives and 47% -. But we are not going to postpone the meeting any further. Negotiations on this issue and of course we are not going to leave the table: it would be irresponsible in relation to the team that we represent,” they emphasized.

The new textile employers’ association has been negotiating with trade unions since September last year new national agreement targeting large groups or chains in the textile sector (including textiles and footwear, clothing, other accessories and household goods) having a total physical sales area of ​​more than 3,500 square meters throughout the country, physical stores in at least three autonomous communities, or having more than 400 employees.

This is the first national agreement for the textile sector and will involve at least 66 major companies in the sector and a total of 110,000 workers.