UGT has called off the four days of strike in the supermarkets of the Community of Madrid, scheduled for December 23, 24, 30 and 31, in the middle of Christmas, after an agreement was reached this Thursday between companies and employers to raise salaries by at least 12% in three years.
The pact comes after a meeting at the Regional Institute of Mediation and Arbitration with the different food trade employers in the Community of Madrid, in a sector that encompasses some 51,000 employees in the region.
Specifically, for 2023, with retroactive effects from January, the agreement includes a 5% salary increase. By 2024 the increase will be 4%, while in 2025 the increase will moderate to 3%. In both 2024 and 2025 there is a salary review clause by virtue of which, depending on the behavior of inflation, salaries may grow one more point in each of those two years.
“This agreement does not satisfy the demands that workers in the sector have, but it represents a substantial improvement in salaries that allows the strike days to be called off,” the union said.
Thus, UGT was congratulated that the employers, “after months, have seen the light and have agreed to increase the salaries of the staff and have opened the channels for workers in the food trade in the Community of Madrid to improve their working conditions”.
This strike affected various supermarket chains such as Alcampo, Hiper Usera, Hiber, La Sirena, Carrefour, Eroski, Supercor, Lidl, Aldi, Alimerka, Condis, Froid, Ifa, Mercadona, among others, as well as traditional markets, galleries commercial and street stores dedicated to the food trade.
