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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
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