CCOO Lanzarote has announced that it will mobilize against the "wild and disproportionate" ERE proposed by the company H&M at the national level, in which it is planned "the closure of 30 stores, staff reductions in 94 stores and the dismissal of more than 1,000 people."
The union has planned mobilizations in different parts of the country, in parallel to the negotiation process that will end on Sunday, May 23, including concentrations, partial stoppages and strikes "in a staggered manner." With this, it affirms that it intends to pressure H&M to "change its attitude at the table, guaranteeing employability mechanisms."
In the case of Lanzarote, a concentration will be held next Friday, May 14, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Deiland Plaza Shopping Center in Playa Honda, where the workers will support the partial strike called before the SIMA. The same, according to what is indicated, "will have all the security measures" and will be done "maintaining social distancing.
CCOO points out that it has already been denouncing that some companies intend to "finance with public money the dismissal of workers who have given everything" and criticizes that H&M, a multinational company that is listed on the stock market, intends to "destroy more than 1,000 jobs."
"More than 1,000 families that will go to the streets in a company that has not had losses, due to online sales during the closure of the pandemic," adds the union, which explains that it is because of online sales that the company wants to "restructure" it and "get rid of its employees."
From CCOO Lanzarote they make a call "to the entire working class of the island so that they become aware once and for all." "This labor abuse is not an isolated incident, but one more of those that have arrived and will continue on our island," says the union, which points out that while the workers are "expecting events," "companies are already doing business with layoffs."