Labor dissatisfaction at Inditex: why the saleswomen are going on strike in February

Have you ever thought about the role of a fashionable shop assistant? The truth is that there are many who underestimate the job of shop assistants – see the latest controversy that arose over the issue of clothes hangers, the garments that set fire to the networks – but the numbers show that without them the roles could not be done correctly are performed commercials of major companies. That is why more and more voices are calling for a revaluation of wages, with which they pay fairly for the work done, as happens within Inditex.

You may have heard of it, but believe me when I tell you that there is a long wave of social discontent that goes beyond the latest headlines. In fact, The resonance of this labor criticism from Inditex employees goes back several weeksjust when they needed their employees the most: January 7, the first day of the winter sale.

From Barcelona to Seville, via Valencia and Logroño, On January 7, hundreds of dependents said enough against the precarious contracts of the Spanish group and they came up with a general closing of the shops in these big cities. But they were not the only ones nor the first, they all joined the protests initiated by their colleagues from A Coruña in the context of Black Friday, under the slogan of “I work at Inditex and can’t make ends meet”. A social tide that has no brakes and that is called again by the UGT working groups for the following month of February.

But Where does the general dissatisfaction of the group of dependents of the various firms of Amancio Ortega come from? Mainly, because of the uncertainty of their salary and by some labor laws that in some way “over-utilize” the employee’s schedule.

As they explain from El Salto, “they charge 1080 euros per month and ask for a surcharge of 500 euros per monthsince its logistics partners, factories and factories charge almost double and Inditex continues to announce record profits”. Record figures that, on the contrary, do not favor one of the most important pawns of the commercial chain, the saleswomen.

In fact, their demands are not at all illogical or excessive as months ago The Galician colleagues achieved a historic increase before Christmas, namely an increase of 382 euros per month or, which is the same, an increase of almost 25%. A very comprehensive salary increase that, as explained by the CIG for eldiario.es, “is applied to the 15 monthly payments received by the employees and will represent an increase of 4,800 euros gross per year. Of the 322 euros per month they will receive for above the current salary, 122 will go through the so-called ‘plus head office'”.

There are still many doubts about this new strike by the group of Inditex employees, but if one thing is clear, it is that: Since this week, the first negotiations have already started to resolve this dissatisfaction general. Some measures to equate decent wages to all communities from this week representatives of the CCOO and UGT sit at the multinational with the aim, as the website Business Insider notes, to “address global measures that affect all stores and brands of the group at the state level”.