Last November, the presentation of the budgets of the Valencia City Council left the unions UGT-PV and CCOO-PV with a poker face. The reason was the elimination, by the employment area headed by Juanma Badenas (Vox), of the nominative line to be distributed among the union formations established within the framework of the Employment Pact. Now it seems that Badenas corrects, although she sets conditions: she approves that they once again receive the planned amounts “as long as their action plans are approved by the institutional council of the Pact.” Even so, Badenas assured yesterday that “the current Pact will be fulfilled in all its terms until the last minute.”
This council will be convened “in the coming weeks”, as announced yesterday by the council, which proposes to continue working and advance in achieving the Pact and thus achieve “the maximum possible objectives.” At the meeting, Badenas stated that the meeting would be to start working on a new employment strategy 2025-2029 that is “more plural and inclusive.”
“The new pact must integrate other entities, such as universities and professional associations, to achieve a broader, more extensive program, where everyone’s collaboration allows us to go further to begin work to prepare the next pact,” Badenas indicated yesterday. . Sources themselves assure that this new reading of the Pact, promoted by the former mayor of Valencia Rita Barberá in 2001, will pose many difficulties because there are issues, such as equality or support for migrant personnel, to which the union groups do not go. to resign.
The tensions are not few, since both the deputy mayor and councilor for Employment and Training, Juanma Badenas, and the councilor for Entrepreneurship, Cecilia Herrero, boasted on social networks of suppressing these aid to UGT and CCOO, “a caste of extreme left with privileges contrary to the interests of the workers,” Badenas said then.
In response, social agents, including the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV), showed their discontent with the decision that in recent months they have tried to redirect. Yesterday was the day to try to shape this redirection with an “informal” meeting chaired by Badenas and Herrero and which brought together the aforementioned unions and other agents of the economic activity of the city of Valencia.
From the meeting comes the idea that in 2025 things will change, as expressed by Cecilia Herrero, who claimed the importance of including “the vision of companies, as great generators of employment, and betting on entrepreneurship as a lever and engine for the creation of self-employment and employment”, according to the official statement.
“We are the main Spanish city that is generating the most employment, but, even so, the employment rate is still too high and that is a figure that we have to try to reduce together. Therefore, with the new pact we want to define employment, training and entrepreneurship actions, in collaboration with all social agents to try to ensure that the unemployment rate reaches 2007 levels,” Juanma Badenas added yesterday.
