The commerce workers of the province of Las Palmas will begin mobilizations this Friday to demand a "decent" sector agreement. In the case of Lanzarote, this concentration will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., in front of the Hiperdino supermarket in the industrial area of Playa Honda.
The mobilizations have been promoted by CCOO, who denounces "the systematic blockade of the sector's employers, directed from the large companies, seeking to impose an agreement that determines its downward signature, being aware of the increases that these large companies have had during the pandemic".
"We maintain a demand to the employers in terms of a fair negotiation and equated to what the commerce sector deserves, being faithful to those essential jobs by the workers in said sector, requesting the commerce employers to negotiate and not impose conditions, since those employers, in the first meetings, have not even begun to assess the platform presented by this social part", the union states.
CCOO explained that it has agreed on the calendar of mobilizations "in defense of the negotiation and signing of a decent agreement for the more than 20,000 workers in the commerce sector" in the province, with concentrations in front of the main associates of this sector. The first of these will take place this Friday, January 15 "simultaneously" on all the islands of the province.
From CCOO it is emphasized that "the food commerce sector in the Canary Islands has been one of the sectors that has been saved from the economic crisis caused during the state of alarm by Covid-19" and affirms that "even in the face of this situation, the workforces of the work centers made a considerable work effort, accumulating workloads and occupational hazards without due preventive protection".
"These workers, in turn, are professionals in the sector who are not only the best asset of the companies, but are workers who are providing an essential work service to society, being available to continue doing so. Once again, the recognition that their work activity entails is not given from the business employers, establishing as it should be, a decent sector agreement, with a salary and working conditions according to their activity", the union concludes.
