After a year of continuous meetings and four months of mobilizations, workers at the Zubieta incinerator continue their fight for dignified working conditions. They have called for three strike days in May: the first today, the 12th, and the other two on the 19th and 26th.

On today's strike day, as on two occasions in April, employees gathered in front of the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council's headquarters in Gipuzkoa Square in Donostia. There, they registered a request to meet with the institution's deputy for sustainability.

During the concentration, as they have been doing since the beginning of the year, they chanted “Ensure our health!”, along with the repeated demand for dignified working conditions, amidst the sound of alarms. They have denounced that the real toxicity to which they are exposed is not recognized. The works council has pointed to the companies managing the incinerator and the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council as responsible for their situation.

According to the LAB union, the companies Ekobal and Ekondakin have shown no willingness to move towards a company agreement that would regulate and improve workers' conditions, and they have criticized the continuous irresponsibility of GHK and the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council. The workers have emphasized that the Gipuzkoa Street Cleaning Collective Agreement does not regulate the specific characteristics of the incinerator plant, which operates similarly to an industrial plant.

For this reason, the workers of the Zubieta incinerator seek to agree on a company agreement that will regulate these specific working conditions. Ekondakin is the public contract concessionaire company, which in turn subcontracts Ekobal to work at the incinerator, with 70 workers covered by the Gipuzkoa Street Cleaning Collective Agreement. Both companies are temporary joint ventures, with the participation of the giant Urbaser in both.