The general secretary of Trade Union Confederation Services in the Canary Islands, Borja Suárez, has announced mobilizations in the three islands of the province of Las Palmas, including Lanzarote, due to the "excessive" workloads suffered by employees in the hotel sector, who have to follow and enforce "unaffordable" health measures.
In this way, he has accused hotel businessmen of already having one hundred percent of their capacity but maintaining the staff at 50 percent, according to Suárez in a press conference.
Similarly, from CCOO they ask that something be done with the collective bargaining, which they have assured has been paralyzed since 2019, leaving workers without an agreement and to which companies respond with a "negative".
For these reasons, they have announced a "hot autumn", thus calling for demonstrations on September 1 in front of the employers of each island, as well as on the 15th and 29th of the same month, which are expected to take place in hotels that are affiliated with the employers.
Likewise, the general secretary has assured that they feel "tired of waiting" to sit down to negotiate with the hotel companies, which he assures "are not registering losses" during the pandemic, only "lower growth" than in the pre-pandemic years.
On the other hand, he considered that it is "logical" to include the consequences of the pandemic within the agreement they seek to negotiate, since it is a situation that "is not as temporary as was thought."
