Fedejerez has declined to negotiate further in
the row over the Convenio de la Vid “while violence continues at the gates of
the production centres.” The meeting scheduled for midday yesterday has been
postponed indefinitely, and the bodegas’ representative body described it as “intolerable”
that the rights of those who wished to work – in their estimation some 90% -
were not being respected. They cited slashed and punctured tyres and damage to
the bodywork of the cars of workers, mostly from administration departments.
They also condemned the number of pickets “who don’t even work in the Sherry
trade” and who are professional troublemakers.
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| Evaristo Babe (foto:dtlux.com) |
Fedejerez president, Evaristo Babé said that negotiations
cannot be conducted like this in the XXI century and that it is unjustifiable
that such narrow points of difference are enough to provoke a strike. He
pointed out the damage the strike is doing to Sherry which is only now showing
signs of recovery after a long crisis with customer orders delayed, Sherry’s
image tarnished and potential investment risked. According to what the Diario
de Jerez has been able to learn, each striking worker has lost between 300-400
euros of pay, but the losses to the companies are much greater. Workers in
Jerez are actually better paid than those in some wine regions, though the
strike is not about salary so much as bonuses.
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