Some 800 workers from the different companies of the Mediapro group in charge of the retransmission of the League and the Second Male Soccer Division are summoned to strike in the last days of the championships. The convening unions denounce that the Swiss company HBS, a new award of the production of the League, does not guarantee the subrogation of the staff, which has generated great job instability throughout the workforce.
The strike will be effective from May 13 to 27, so it will affect days 36, 37 and 38 of the League, the last three of the championship, as well as to days 40 and 41 of the Second Male Division.
“We want a signed and binding document before the league ends, in which it is ensured that acquired conditions or rights will not be lost. We also demand that it will be guaranteed that an ERE will not be carried out once the championship has begun,” they explain from CGT, a majority union in the Barcelona work center. This union center summons strike in the Company of European Society of Mobile Units, SLU, better known as Eumovil, which groups 450 of the 800 people who currently work for Mediapro companies linked to the broadcast of the League. Other unions have also registered, or will do so in the next few hours, strike calls for the rest of the group’s companies.
“We cannot accept that HBS, which will move a lot of money with the League, is unable to ensure the use of the more than 800 people who work in it,” they denounce from CGT. They also point out in Mediapro: “For years they have made a great business at the expense of workers’ precariousness; today there are operators that charge 150 euros gross per party, the same as charged 20 years ago.”
With the strike, the unions intend to achieve a guarantee that the entire workforce can continue working on all the scenarios of subrogation, assignment or any other situation, given the uncertainty about the continuity in the provision of services to the League. They also claim the maintenance of labor rights and acquired rights.
CGT denounces that there are currently a significant number of workers in very precarious and unstable situations, with discontinuous fixed contracts that in many cases are outside the legality, as already denounced repeatedly before the Labor Inspection.
Therefore, the unions claim that a negotiating table with all the actors involved to ensure the continuity and improvement of jobs, whatever their current situation, be urgently constituted.
