Overview
- A preagreement announced Tuesday between Renault España and unions UGT, CCOO and SCP sets new pay, hiring and flexibility terms in exchange for the company saying it will allocate five new models to its Spanish plants.
- The deal specifies wage formulas of CPI plus 1% for 2026, CPI for 2027 and CPI plus 0.63% for 2028 with an upward review clause, and includes payments and staffing measures such as 300 permanent hires over the life of the agreement.
- Renault says the package would place the RGEV Medium 2.0 electric platform at the Palencia plant and allow the first Renault Group electric-vehicle production in Spain, a move framed as key to the plants’ industrial future.
- The preagreement is not final and must be ratified in worker assemblies; two unions, CGT and CSIF, have refused to sign and CSIF publicly criticized the terms as insufficient and a cause for further mobilisation.
- The government intervened to broker talks and the outcome will affect thousands of local jobs and the region’s supply chain, while a failed ratification could delay or jeopardise the promised model allocations.