The labor inspection concluded that Geacam modified the working conditions of its coordinating forest firefighters without prior notice

The ruling comes as a result of the complaint submitted by the workers and the judicial procedures opened by the unionwhich celebrates the report for “detailing how Geacam violated workers’ rights by unilaterally applying the company’s collective agreement to them with two and a half years of retroactive effect.”

Until May 19, 2025, the working relationship between the coordinators was governed by a dual system of agreements: Economic conditions are based on the XIX State Engineering Convention, while jobs and other working conditions were applied in accordance with the Third Collective Agreement for employees of companies holding forest fire services of Castilla-La Mancha.

However, although the Geacam Agreement, approved in 2023, provides for free and voluntary accession through its second final provision, “None of the affected workers adhered to the aforementioned agreement.”specifies CSIF.

On 19 May 2025, Geacam informed workers that from that date and retroactively to 30 December 2022, the Company Agreement would mandatorily apply to them.. According to the union, the company justified the change by the need to provide “legal security” to labor relations and by the workers’ alleged “tacit acceptance,” even though “it had a negative impact on the wage level on the price of overtime, permanent availability and winter guarding.”

next to, CSIF denounces “lack of transparency in payroll” with vague concepts such as “liquidity adjustment” or “advance” being used without detail. The union asserts that “the opacity in the payment of payrolls is one of the keys to this judicial action, because it is not known how much, how and to whom Geacam pays certain items to its workers.”

CSIF adds that the labor inspection report “concurs with the union in its ongoing complaints against Geacam for rights violations, as well as against The current instability in this public company”, which maintains a temporary employment of more than 30% and “poor working conditions: absolute availability 24/7 during the fire campaign at 0.37 euros / hour, plus life risks (rigidity, toxicity, danger) at 2 euros per day”.

This latest additional risk to life was not paid to the affected group either.This will raise a new lawsuit, according to the union. “Although this was requested in a friendly manner, it was rejected,” points out the CSIF, which adds that “the meeting point of the workers’ action has also been changed, which demonstrates Geacam’s position against its own workers.”

The Federation also points out that “in the past three years This group filed six complaints of varying severity with the companywith the obvious economic and emotional cost to workers, as well as the outright refusal to consider, negotiate and reconcile any claim. On the contrary, the CSIF asserts that Geacam “indefinitely resorts to any operation to delay them, and in this way undermines workers psychologically and economically.”