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ELA in the Forum Social Europe in Brussels

Joint response against the arrest of members of "Herrira"

ELA renews its cooperation project with Honduras and Nicaragua

ELA calls to address the climate challenge by supporting "ALTERNATIBA", in Bayonne on October 6

ELA requires a supplement equivalent to the loss that pensions will have

Time for action and organisation. Collective bargaining: new scenario

Extraordinary Congresses of ELA Federatios

Reflections on the General Strike of 30 May

General Strike on 30 May

Eleven weeks for Athens

Muñoz: “Corruption is a structural aspect of the system, which puts the relationship between economics and politics in the spotlight”

“Celebrating the past, looking to the future”

Adolfo Muñoz, re-elected General Secretary with a broad majority

Muñoz: “If the cuts continue, there will be further social mobilisation”

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  • ELA has increased its membership by 2,000 people since the previous Congress (total figure: 100,925)
  • ELA is taking to the streets on the 24th of October to put the brakes on the pension cutbacks and to repeal the labour reform
  • ELA has signed the agreement with Tubacex, which prevents 129 redundancies, after over 8 months on strike
  • Pension reform: “The new Intergenerational Equity Mechanism gives carte blanche to the government for pension cutbacks”
  • The Guggenheim Museum: Inequality is cheap and tempting
  • The Tubacex sentences uncover the fraudulent actions by the company’s management
  • ELA has reached an agreement with H&M to not apply the dismissals agreed upon by the company, CCOO and UGT in Hego Euskal Herria (South Basque Country)
  • A concentration by ELA, LAB, STEILAS and CCOO against the attempt to cover up the pandemic management by the Department of Education of the Autonomous Basque Country
  • The First of May: “With the crisis, we are going to take the other way out, the one using the left hand door, the one with more rights and fewer cutbacks” #AldaketaGaraiaDa
  • Significant following of the strike defending public services and the consolidation and creation of public employment
  • Demonstrations against this system that is killing us and making us ill
  • Thousands of people demand the repeal of the labour and collective bargaining reforms in Euskal Herria, Catalonia and Galicia
  • ELA, CIG and CSC announce mobilisations for the 25th of March to demand the derogation of the labour reform and to stop collective redundancies
  • The salary gap, a pandemic evil
  • In the Basque Autonomous Community, large companies pay less than one euro out of every ten that they earn in taxes
  • ELA supports the strike by trade unions in the French energy sector defending public energy
  • Inditex’s digitalisation plan: job destruction and a worsening in working conditions
  • The support given by PNV and EH Bildu for the European funds decree gives the go ahead for cutting back social and working rights
  • Strike day in the professional care sectors
  • ELA, at the WSF: “It would be a mistake to just look at riders or taxi drivers as the only victims of the growing job insecurity and the use of false self-employed workers”
  • ELA demands institutions to reject European funds conditioned by pension cuts or refraining from going back on labour and collective bargaining reforms
  • ELA demands European tax harmonisation
  • ELA considers it essential to move on from a Covid-19 co-existence strategy to eradicating the disease
  • The Toledo Pact agrees on new pension cutbacks
  • Guipuzcoa has reached a new Metal agreement, fairer and with more rights
  • The Basque Government plans to assign the European funds to multinational companies, hiding the fact that this will entail cutbacks
  • The PNV-PSE agreement opts for cutbacks and greater job insecurity to face up to the Covid-19 crisis
  • The effects of COVID-19 worsen the economic and social crisis and increase unemployment
  • A strike in education in Basque Country, called for the 15th of September by all the trade unions
  • The plan designed by the European Commission does not respond to the existing needs following the healthcare, economic and social crisis
  • The Charter of Social Rights of the Basque Country: “In order to reinforce the public and essential areas, wealth must be shared out”
  • ELA proposes a progressive complementary fund for people with Temporary Employment Regulation (ERTE), guaranteeing 100% of all salaries of less than 1,200 Euros
  • ELA proposes 24 specific steps for “a fair exit” from the Covid-19 crisis
  • ELA, LAB, ESK, Steilas, EHNE and Hiru called for mobilisations on the 27th of March in work centres or at home to defend health, jobs and working conditions
  • Public health must be the top priority
  • Lakuntza condemns the European Union’s support of the human rights violations on the Greek-Turkish border
  • ELA, CIG, LAB y CSC have held a round of meetings with the political parties in the Spanish Congress
  • 15 deaths due to accidents at work in the Basque Country
  • The accident involving the Zaldibar refuse dump exposes an unsustainable model
  • #U30GrebaOrokorra
  • January 30, a historic day
  • “It is time to take the offensive”
  • 30 January: general strike in the Basque Country
  • A historical agreement in educational and social initiative centres in the Basque Country
  • The care workers from the care homes of Guipuzcoa are starting a month-long strike
  • ELA completely rejects the Supreme Court’s judgement that sentences the Catalan independence leaders to very long periods of imprisonment
  • The film director Ken Loach supports the striking care home workers in Guipuzcoa
  • A mass demonstration of the strikers from the metal industry in Bilbao brings a five day-long strike to a close
  • ELA supports the 4th of May rally in Bilbao to condemn the attempted coup in Venezuela
  • An embrace for people, persons and human rights #abrazada
  • The First of May, life at the centre
  • Mitxel Lakuntza elected as the new secretary general of ELA backed by 95.02% #Indarbetean
  • ELA extends its majority in the trade union elections of the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country, closing 2018 with 41.04%
  • The Basque Government’s plan to deal with the pay gap, completely fruitless
  • The National Committee nominates Mitxel Lakuntza to take over from Txiki Muñoz as general secretary of ELA
  • ELA leaves the Navarra Occupational Health Council (Consejo Navarro de Salud Laboral)
  • The weight of salaries has dropped by 2000 million over the past decade in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country
  • The climate change summit, the COP-24, does not provide any solutions to the climate crisis
  • Dying for a fist full of euros, a long way from home
  • In the cleaning sector, women in the Basque Country earn 35% less than men
  • Fascism is also promising security
  • 51,000 people endorse the PLI against poverty and social exclusion
  • ELA is the trade union that has grown most over the past four years
  • The Basque Government’s Proposed Decree sidelines the trade union representation elected by the Basque working class
  • In 2018 ELA is presenting around 100 agreements with effective achievements against job insecurity
  • ELA signs the Bizkaia Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Trade Agreement
  • The staff at the Azkuna Zentroa Media Library in Bilbao reaches an agreement to bring an end to their strike
  • Etcheverry: “The strategic route through which the sovereignty of Euskal Herria can be built has been anticipated”
  • Fascism: Echoes from the past
  • Solidarity with the Palestinian workers and Palestinian people in general
  • Little tax is collected, in an unfair way
  • The new Gipuzkoa construction agreement has been signed
  • Business ahead of the Environment
  • ELA condems the massacre perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian population and denounces the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem
  • ELA considers that ETA’s decision is helping to move forward towards peace
  • Demonstrating opens the way for the fight against inequality and poverty
  • A historic day for the feminist strike of the 8th of March
  • The Social Charter has registered the Popular Legislative Initiative against poverty and social exclusion in the Basque Parliament
  • The Constitutional Court once again opens the door to fracking
  • The Basque trade union majority is joining the feminist strike called by the Basque feminist movement on the 8th of March
  • The fight against job insecurity and wages that are in line with the growth of the economy, goals set out by ELA
  • “The spending rule, approved by PP and PNV prevents any social budgets from being made”
  • As an act of revenge, the Spanish Government has imprisoned the ‘Govern Catalan’
  • ELA reaches a historical agreement bringing an end to the strike by workers in the Residencias de Bizkaia, the longest in the history of Bizkaia
  • ELA defends the right of the Catalan people to decide at the European Confederation of Trade Unions
  • Workers from the Residencias de Bizkaia convene a march on foot throughout Bizkaia in view of the unwillingness to reach an agreement by the employer associations LARES and ELBE
  • CCOO and UGT want to drop the salaries of workers in the hotel and catering trade by 50%
  • Tiredness kills! Road transport action week
  • Muñoz: It is impossible to imprison an entire people
  • Towards democracy and against repression in Catalonia
  • Thousands of women take to the streets of Gasteiz in solidarity with the workers from the Residencias de Bizkaia
  • ELA shows its full compliance with the Catalan process
  • ELA condemns the State’s repressive escalation against Catalonia
  • Congress Newsletter
  • The General Presentation approved in its entirety
  • The Executive Committee's Management report unanimously approved
  • ELA is strengthening its economic independence: 93% of its revenue comes from membership dues
  • European trade unions statement in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers
  • “We defend our trade union independence in order to influence politics as well”
  • ELA took part in the public event for the disarmament in Baiona and it is showing its contentment that the process was completed successfully
  • A demonstration in defence of the Guarantee of Income
  • "We must lend credibility to irreversible, unilateral and complete disarmament"
  • A congress to become stronger
  • ELA is showing its satisfaction for a prompt disarming by ETA
  • CCOO and UGT already created their own coalition of trade unions
  • “It is unacceptable for a Government to scorn trade union democracy”
  • “We have every reason to be outraged”
  • We want to decide collective bargaining here
  • We want to welcome
  • Employers and the Basque Government are sharing a salary reduction strategy
  • Muñoz: “The Basque Government is supporting cowboy companies when it comes to outsourcing”
  • ELA shows its deep concern about the Paris attacks
  • ELA starts up a campaign against job insecurity and labour misery
  • Village of Alternatives
  • The Madrid agreement is seeking to centralise collective bargaining and the demobilisation of workers
  • A clamour in favour of social change
  • ELA consolidates its large majority in the elections held in 2014
  • Thousands of demonstrators in San Sebastian against the dispersion of prisoners
  • ELA calls a week of strikes and protests
  • 11th October 2014 European day of action to stop TTIP, CETA and TISA
  • ELA met the scottish union UNITE and Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland
  • Fighting for wages is fighting for jobs
  • A NEW PATH FOR EUROPE
  • Uncompromising repudiation of the Troika's presence en Bilbao
  • ELA expresses its satisfaction with ETA’s decision to embark on the disarmament process
  • Mobilizations in Bilbao against the Economic Summit
  • Campaing against poverty and precariousness
  • 130.000 demonstrators in Bilbao
  • Half of the people out of work receive no benefit
  • For a law that guarantees minimum conditions in the public sector
  • ELA with the ITUC
  • ELA in the Forum Social Europe in Brussels
  • Joint response against the arrest of members of "Herrira"
  • ELA renews its cooperation project with Honduras and Nicaragua
  • ELA calls to address the climate challenge by supporting "ALTERNATIBA", in Bayonne on October 6
  • ELA requires a supplement equivalent to the loss that pensions will have
  • Time for action and organisation. Collective bargaining: new scenario
  • Extraordinary Congresses of ELA Federatios
  • Reflections on the General Strike of 30 May
  • General Strike on 30 May
  • Eleven weeks for Athens
  • Muñoz: “Corruption is a structural aspect of the system, which puts the relationship between economics and politics in the spotlight”
  • “Celebrating the past, looking to the future”
  • Adolfo Muñoz, re-elected General Secretary with a broad majority
  • Muñoz: “If the cuts continue, there will be further social mobilisation”
  • Thousands of people took to the streets to demand PNV, Bildu and Podemos to prevent Sánchez from cutting back pensions
  • ELA denounces that the attack on pensions is getting worse
  • Mobilisations on the 1st of December demanding decent pensions, working, and living conditions
  • Follow live ELA's XV Congress
  • Mitxel Lakuntza is re-elected as Secretary General of ELA, with 90.69% of the votes
  • ELA’s strategic option is to put the trade union at the disposal of the people who are worst off
  • Video| Mitxel Lakuntza is re-elected as Secretary General of ELA
  • Transformer trade unionism rejects the labour reform proposed by the Spanish State Government
  • 91.4% of contracts in Hego Euskal Herria were temporary in 2021
  • Novaltia – 900 days on strike
  • ELA recalls that rejecting the Decree-Law is the only way towards the repealing of Zapatero and Rajoy’s labour reforms
  • Zaldibar: remember and clarify responsibilities #Zaldibarargitu
  • ELA denounces that the minimum wage has lost three points of purchasing power in 2022
  • ELA will intensify the fight in the work centres against nationalisation and the dismissals that the labour reform continues to allow
  • “The fight against climate change is also a class struggle”
  • "Care means a radical change in outlook, from top to bottom. It has enormous political strength"
  • ELA demands the Russian government to stop the war and urges negotiation and a diplomatic route to overcome it
  • #April28: “The greater amount of temporary work, part-time contracts or poverty suffered by women have an impact on their health and they demand a different approach”
  • 1st of May| Mitxel Lakuntza : “For the wealth to be shared out, we need good agreements, not an Income Pact”
  • Over the past five years 13,000 members of ELA have defended their labour rights using the strike fund
  • ELA demands an urgent tax reform to ensure that companies contribute at least 25% of their profits to the Corporations Tax
  • The ELA-Zerbitzuak federation will redouble its efforts in the fight against job insecurity and the wage gap, after carrying out 100 strikes in 4 years
  • ELA-Gizalan will be invested in the consolidation of public employment and in dignifying care work
  • ELA will back Industry and Construction for a sharing out of the wealth in view of the growing business profits
  • Last weekend’s deaths at the Melilla border fence are the result of the European Union’s policies
  • ELA demands the dissolution of NATO as a route towards a safer and more peaceful world
  • The impoverishment process is speeding up. ELA’s proposals to face up to this crisis
  • Euskal Herria’s Charter of Social Rights is calling for mobilisations against the process of impoverishment: demonstrations on the 19th of November
  • Mitxel Lakuntza, General Secretary of ELA: “We want to defend the purchasing power of salaries and pensions and to demand some decent social benefits”
  • The end of the longest-lasting strike in Europe with 26% increases and 9,450 euros for each striker
  • ELA demands the repeal of the Law on Foreigners
  • The new Spanish pension reform means cutbacks
  • The EU will return to the austerity policies in 2024, as the tax rules will come back into effect
  • ELA obtains a wage rise of over 23% after two years of dispute and a 68 day-long strike
  • ELA is the trade union that has obtained most representatives in 2023 and it has been consolidated as the leading union in Hego Euskal Herria (south Basque Country) (36.13%)
  • The deaths in the Ionian Sea are due to the European Union’s inhumane policies
  • ELA joins the request for governments to support South Africa in the lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice
  • ELA mobilized to demand the end of racial discrimination
  • Against genocide in Gaza
  • ELA is launching a campaign to mobilise over 1,500 trade union sections in the fight against racism and discrimination
  • The General Secretary, Esther Lynch, meets ELA in Bilbao
  • ELA joins the Gernika-Palestine Platform's demand for a ceasefire and the right to self-determination for the Palestinian People
  • ELA joins the global campaign to demand a political solution to the Kurdish question
  • Wide support during the last two days of the strike against the State agreement
  • ELA registers a request for an agreement with Confebask and CEN regarding a own minimum wage for Hego Euskal Herria
  • War and capitalism, an alliance against the working class
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