The Delegation of the Workers' Trade Union Front of the Canary Islands (FSOC) has denounced to the Labor Inspectorate the alleged irregularities in the union elections that were held on February 12 at the Plus Fariones Apartments in Lanzarote.
The FSOC presented a candidacy of 14 workers to elect a Works Council of five members. Throughout the process, and before the proclamation of the candidacies presented by the union, "all the voters resigned from the FSOC candidacy until they were left without any candidates." The union states that the Board "only proclaimed the CCOO Candidacy as the only union participating in the union election process."
The FSOC suspects that "the massive resignations from our union organization's candidacy are not due to the free decision of the participants, and that third parties may have intervened" who "induced these workers to renounce their right to participate in union elections with our acronyms," so all indications point to the possibility that there may have been a "flaw in consent."
Protected under "the umbrella of impunity enjoyed by these behaviors, these attitudes, organized and directed at eliminating the adversary participating in union elections, are not new, and unfortunately are usually more common than normal."
The fact that only the full CCOO candidacy was presented on February 12 after the massive resignation from the FSOC candidacy makes it clear who is the beneficiary of this situation.
If the facts are proven, the FSOC does not rule out resorting to the Courts of Justice because not only may the fundamental rights of the FSOC and the workers themselves have been violated. The serious impediment to the exercise of the right to freedom of association is recognized as a crime in the Penal Code.
