Correos will relocate to the nearly 800 workers in the 36 nodal centers (dedicated to logistics and shipping preparation) that the public company will close in 2025. This has been announced by Correos and the unions, which have reached an agreement to ensure employment for the new era that Correos wants to open with its, which seeks to ensure the economic viability of the company. “It is contemplated that the 800 workers of the 36 Mixed Correo/CEX nodal centers that will disappear throughout 2025 will be relocated without decrease their labor rights prior negotiation with the unions, the voluntary leave incentive for the 2,200 officials who will access it from 57 years and the guarantee of maintain They before summer, ”said UGT in a statement.
For its part, Correos has indicated that the agreement “guarantees employment within the public company in a rapid decline context of postal activity adapting and redistributing the capabilities of its workforce to the new business initiatives and activity of the strategic plan ”. In December, the Government published a, in addition to expanding its capacities for the collection of fines and providing financial services. In this last aspect, the idea of the company is, but without Correos becoming a bank as such, but will limit themselves to giving basic financial services, especially in emptied Spain.
The set of measures approved in December for mails will be used to “avoid the risk of dissolution of the company in the short term,” the Executive said in December, since in said Royal Decree it is regulated “the system to compensate Correos for the provision of these new services.” “We value the effort that the government makes with this legal measure for,” said UGT, CSIF and free union, in which they referred to “the poor management of the public company” between 2018 and 2023 as one of the main factors that explain their current situation.
The Strategic Correos Plan seeks to diversify income “through a greater offer of commercial services and a growing role of the public company as an ally of the administration.” In turn, it includes a “and technological transformation that automates and makes operational processes more efficient, an impulse to internationalization and investments in new infrastructure and fleet of vehicles” to expand operational capacity and meet the environmental emails.
The new collective agreement is pending
In addition, in the agreement reached this weekend, unions and mails have given three more months, until June 30, to agree on the rest of the measures that will be necessary to design the new collective agreement that replaces the current one, which dates from 2011. CC OO, majority union in the public company, has indicated that the pact with emails in turn contemplates the implementation of “a new process of consolidation of employment. of relevant income to be fixed in mails, thus materializing the first of the pending employment offers, of those planned until 2028, the year in which the validity of the agreement ends ”. This, they add, will serve to balance the voluntary departures committed in the agreement signed on December 31, 2024.
Another of the changes looking for the address of mails with Pedro Saura, its president, at the head, is to move a good part of the person’s turn personnel to the afternoon. Of the around 50,000 workers that the company has, about 80% work in the morning shift, a percentage that Correos wants to go down to 60%. In this sense, the company will approve a fourth work shift from Tuesday to Saturday.
