elections in Workforce Development. The president of the Catalan employers’ association, Josep Sanchez Llibrehas convened the board of directors for next Monday and one of the items on the agenda includes the call for elections, as this newspaper has learned from sources familiar with the text. The current president intends to present himself again in order to complete some of the projects that he has in his portfolio, as he explained to his collaborators. The agenda, signed by the organization’s secretary, David Tornos, also includes a report from the president and the presentation of the economic situation report.
In this way, Sánchez Llibre has chosen to advance the elections a couple or three months, which should initially be held in September. Now, in the absence of the board of directors setting a date for the celebration, Everything indicates that they will take place during July next, the same month in which the Cercle d’Economia will hold elections with two candidates for the first time in 64 years, the businesswoman and economist Rosa Cañadas and the former CEO of Banc Sabadell, Jaume Guardiola.
complicated autumn
And why the advance? Well, because from the Catalan employers’ association it is expected that autumn will be more complicated as a consequence of the price increaseswhich affects not only energy or fuels, but also the shopping basket and the difficulties that are expected in the negotiation of collective agreements. And for this, a team with four years ahead of them will be much better than another that has to face elections, according to sources familiar with the electoral call.
Sánchez Llibre was ratified by the Foment del Treball electoral assembly on November 5, 2018. During his mandate, he has been characterized by a true crusade against the policies of the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colauas well as against government tax policy of the Generalitat. Sánchez Llibre also obtained the support of the CEO to promote an appeal of unconstitutionality against the wealth tax, which did not prosper. One of its objectives, to recover the maximum number of social offices that left Catalonia before, during and after the independence referendum of 2007, has not yet been achieved, although it has managed to get new companies and sectors to join the organization.
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In addition to a greater unity of action with the other Catalan employers’ association, Pimec, Sánchez Llibre also ended the dispute with the Vallesan employers’ association Cecot, to which the previous president, Joaquim Gay de Montellà temporarily withdrew the condition of partner. Despite the ideological differences, Cecot returned to the organization after a few months of intense negotiations.
Some sources have attributed interest on the part of Sánchez Llibre in influencing the elections in the CEOE, of which he is vice president. The truth is that there is not much harmony with the president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi. The president of Foment has denied at all times any intention to stand for those elections. In any case, the Catalan employers abstained before the agreement with the unions on the labor reform, which came to be interpreted as a covert no to that pact, along with other organizations.