Vallejo Factory Workers Go On Strike
Paint factory workers demand a 15% wage increase and more protections from ownership
Workers at Acrylicos Vallejo, the Spanish paint manufacturer known primarily for hobby paints such as its flagship Model Color range, have gone on indefinite strike. Supported by the Catalonian branch of Spanish trade union federation CGT, 74 strikers have cited dangerous working conditions, lack of harassment protections, and an unacceptable pay gap between managers and workers as reasons for taking industrial action.
The Vallejo paint brand is ubiquitous across the miniature painting and scale modelling communities. Established in the 1960s to provide acrylic paints to the animation industry, it developed the first acrylics for airbrush use in the 1980s before moving on to its hobby and miniature ranges. Vallejo paints are now exported to 55 countries worldwide.
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