Zara Workers Urge Fashion Chain to Stop Plan Cutting Local Wages

Inditex SA shop workers in A Coruña have urged the parent of the Zara fashion chain to halt a proposed labor agreement that they say would cut pay and benefits in the retailer’s birthplace.

“The new agreement looks more like one drafted in 1975 — in Zara’s early days — than in 2026,” the workers said in a letter addressed to Non-Executive Chair Marta Ortega and seen by Bloomberg. The employees in A Coruña, which earn more than peers in other parts of Spain, cited the company’s financial growth, which enabled it to hire celebrities such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kate Moss and Steven Meisel.