The deputy and candidate of the PRC for the Presidency of Cantabria, Paula Fernández Viaña, will bring to the next Plenary Session of Parliament a proposal for a resolution to urge the Cantabrian Government (PP) to intervene in order to achieve the exclusion of the Autonomous Community from the state textile agreement promoted by the Association Retail Textil España (ARTE), following the same model applied in the Basque Country.
With this initiative, which will be debated in the plenary session on Tuesday, the regionalist parliamentarian intends to support the demands of the sector's workers in Cantabria and ensure the validity of the autonomous collective agreement, published last January, which includes "decent working conditions in line with the economic and social reality of Cantabria".
Fernández Viaña has indicated that the negotiation of the state agreement promoted by ARTE, where large companies and fashion chains are grouped, has caused "confusion and concern" among employees and union representatives in the Autonomous Community, due to the risk of seeing the rights recognized in their own agreement, in force for only a few months, being cut back.
For this reason, she considers it essential that the regional executive "get actively involved" to safeguard the uniqueness of this labor framework, "just as the Basque Country has done," and prevent any reduction in the conditions recently agreed upon in the regional agreement.
"The maintenance of this own framework is fundamental to respond to the reality of the sector in Cantabria with specific and adapted working conditions," the PRC leader has emphasized.
Fernández Viaña is confident that her proposal will receive the support of the other parliamentary groups and has called for the "responsibility" of the regional government to side with the more than 4,000 Cantabrian workers affected. "It cannot remain indifferent to the struggle of these workers," she added.
In her opinion, any agreement reached at the state level "must respect existing agreements and frameworks in Cantabria and avoid setbacks in consolidated labor rights, avoiding unnecessary uncertainties for those affected."