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On 23 January the management at Spanish utility company Endesa and the UGT, the majority union at the company, signed the company’s new collective agreement. The agreement, which should in principle put an end to more than two years of conflict (see article n°11455), was made possible after the intervention of an arbitrator who proposed a solution regarding the preferential electricity bill rates granted to the company’s retired former employees. However, the CCOO union and the SIE, an independent energy sector union, have refused to sign up to the deal because the welfare benefits are being scaled down. That said, the unions have ratified the agreement on 1,000 voluntary departures, which arrive alongside the company’s efforts to tilt towards renewable energy as well as the closure of its thermal power plants. They have also ratified the wage agreement.
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