With the purpose of collect three payroll payments that are still pending payment, an indefinite strike begins at , a Catalan e-commerce company.
Indefinite strike in Groupalia from Friday 20
Through a statement, the Workers’ Commissions union, which controls the company committee, assures that Groupalia is going on strike in response to job insecurity in which the company in which 25 people work regulated by the Contact Center agreement is located.
These 25 workers have not received the salaries corresponding to November, December or the extra Christmas pay, as well as the payment for January. They assure that delays are normal in the company, but despite being aware of the bad economic situation that the company is going through, They have not had any response from the managementdespite the fact that in December the staff went on strike to demand the payment of salaries.
A story of success and decline
is a online company offering local leisure, travel, services and products. It was founded in Barcelona in May 2010 and has been quite a successful company with subsidiaries in Italy and branches in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia.
Going from success to a period of difficulties by getting rid of its branches and selling its subsidiary in Italy, in March 2015, creating Merchant Digital Services. These bad times for Groupalia continue until the group in early February 2016.
Now, the person in charge of Union Action of Services of the CCOO of Catalonia, Sergio Calahorro, complaint in , which is “an ERE (Employment Regulation File) undercover” since in just nine months two thirds of the workforce have been lostwhich consisted of 75 workers, the majority due to sick leave.
They denounce forced transfer by the company
Another of the complaints by the Groupalia workers who are going on strike is that the current owner of the company, Antonio Alcantara, the workplace has changed to Abrera and Vilanova i la Geltrú without just cause from the original place of Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona), which is 42 kilometers apart.
To the lack of salary, workers add the fact of having to pay for longer journeys to get to work. This is how the workers of do not see the prospect of a solution to their requests and They call an indefinite strike to demand their salaries and rights.
The CCOO suspects that Alcántara intends to take the company to bankruptcy and that is transferring the business to other online offer companies such as the same, and Nice&Crazy that also belong to it and that were Groupalia’s direct competition until its acquisition by Ofertix.
That is how a leading Spanish eCommerce platform for discount coupons is complicating its history more and more. Its workers are convinced that the last intention of the company is to declare bankruptcy and that in the end Groupalia will close its operations.
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