The decision was officially announced this Friday, coinciding with the start of the one-month negotiation period for the ERO. According to company sources, the procedure has been conducted in compliance with the law and with a willingness to dialogue, after exploring all alternatives for the plant's continuity.
Leche Pascual states that Casa Tarradellas has offered individual job positions to the affected employees, guaranteeing full salary and seniority, which they can still accept. The company also notes that the delay in initiating the redundancy process was out of respect for the electoral process to choose employee representatives, given the uncertainty surrounding the transfer.
Conversely, the workers' representatives argue that the ERO "lacks a real justification," asserting that the Gurb plant has achieved "its best records" in production and profitability since its inception. They claim the company is closing a "functioning" factory to transfer production to other sites, such as the one in Burgos, where production lines and packaging for brands like Lidl and Llet Nostra have already been moved.
Workers also criticize the postponement of negotiations, lamenting that Leche Pascual waited "almost a year" after deciding to sell the factory to formally open the process. They point out that the ERO was announced "on the eve of closure," when the decision was "de facto executed" and some operations had already been withdrawn from Gurb.
The workforce states they will negotiate the ERO but will not accept agreements that fail to acknowledge the lack of valid grounds for dismissal and do not effectively protect workers' rights. If sufficient guarantees are not provided, they intend to take legal action to seek the "annulment of a procedure they consider flawed by irregularities." They also plan further protests, adding to recent actions like strikes and road blockades on the C-17.
