The local police and firefighters of Santiago have ratified the pre-agreement negotiated in recent weeks with the City Hall which, according to the Workers’ Commissions (CC.OO.), envisages “a significant increase” in overtime pay and first relationship development … jobs, another of their main demands.
This is, according to union declarations collected by Ep, “a historic agreement thanks to the negotiation who has led CC.OO. in recent weeks with the support of the UGT.
The draft agreement reached last week was ratified on Sunday by the firefighters and this Monday evening by the local police officers, underlines the Commission in a press release, “so that All that remains is to close the terms of the document and its signature between the parties.”
Time limit
The process of preparing the job list “it’s already in progress” head of the research group on human resources and performance of the University of Santiago de Compostela, which, according to CC.OO., foresees that its mission will end in June 2026.
On the basis of this “methodological” work, the Town Hall and the union representation will create a group to complete the list of jobs, “with the commitment to approve it and that its effects can be applied on January 1, 2026.”
CC.OO. emphasizes that, for this, the government team “commits to providing in the 2026 budgets a position to complete the remuneration adjustments resulting from the list of jobs.
“The parties consider that the new employment relationship constitutes the ideal instrument to achieve three objectives: adapt the number of positions to the needs of each department, by rationalizing the organization and improving the distribution of work; determine the specific characteristics, requirements and circumstances of each position; and set the corresponding additional remuneration”, underlines Commissions.
Over time
The ratified prior agreement also includes, according to the union’s assessment, “improvements” in the area of extraordinary services, which are at the origin of the conflict of recent months.
“The municipal council is committed to gradually reduce the need to provide extraordinary services by staff”, he emphasizes. In addition, he adds, from January 1, 2026, there will be an increase in the amount of overtime bonuses “of around 25%”.
Regarding work on public holidays, “it is agreed that the list of jobs identifies positions that must provide services on an ordinary basis on public holidays, either because they are subject to cyclical work shifts, or because they are positions that provide service from Monday to Friday, including the corresponding holidays.
This information, according to the Commissions, “should be available in March 2026 and must be communicated to union representation”. Once these steps have been taken, he asserts that the inclusion in the specific complement amounts which are perceived as holiday bonuses, “after averaging the result of the positions which could currently benefit from this concept”.
Collective agreement
The pact also provides for the creation in the first half of 2026 of a commission responsible for revising the regulation agreement-collective agreement of its “possible changes”.
This document is valid for more than 16 years, it is therefore “necessary”, for CC.OO., to update it in order to adapt it “to current needs, to the current regulatory framework and applicable case law.
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