The Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory and the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) trade union have reached an agreement allowing the strike called at the Immigration Offices and across all government delegations and sub-delegations to be called off.
According to the trade union, the Ministry has incorporated the main demands put forward by CCOO, which it has stated “opens the door to a historic improvement in staff working conditions”. Furthermore, it has emphasised that this agreement ‘is the result of more than a year of sustained mobilisation at immigration offices, which since April 2025 have been the scene of rallies and strikes, demonstrating exemplary professionalism despite the difficulties, low pay and the structural overload of the service’.
For the union, the protests have shown that organised pressure “delivers results”. In this vein, it explained that the strike had “a single objective: to improve an essential public service and ensure the retention of the talent of those who work every day to reduce waiting times and provide decent service to the foreign population”.
It also highlighted that this agreement will “strengthen” the Immigration Offices, “improve” service to the public and “enhance” the working conditions of thousands of workers. The union also pointed out that it has been “the only organisation to have consistently defended the Immigration Service and the Government’s regional and sub-regional offices, despite unfounded criticism, and that the strike call has proven to be the necessary tool to reverse years of neglect”.
Under the agreement, 7,000 workers in government delegations and sub-delegations will receive, from 1 July, a monthly pay rise of over 10% on average, with increases exceeding 18% at the lowest pay levels. CCOO has highlighted that this agreement constitutes ‘an unprecedented milestone’ in the General State Administration, as, it explained, it is the ‘first time’ that an entire body has received a pay rise through a target-based productivity system, thus bringing it into line with other areas of the General State Administration that have already been using this model for years.
Similarly, it noted that the agreement includes a commitment to review the List of Job Positions (RPT) “in order to modernise regional structures and strengthen public service delivery across all offices of regional and sub-regional delegations”.
He also assured that “significant improvements” are being introduced to training programmes, expanding pathways and online options; extending remote working to groups that previously could not access it; and making “progress” in occupational health and safety, particularly in risk assessment.