The workers of Lanzarote Bus and all the companies of the group (Guaguas Lanzarote, Jocaba and Guaguas Jocaba) have started an indefinite strike this Thursday, demanding "decent conditions".
According to the Secretary of Social Action of the Federation of Transport of Intersindical Canaria, José Manuel Moreno, in statements to La Voz, the strike has been endorsed "by 100% of the staff", which is currently composed of "about 70 workers".
However, Moreno clarified that on the initial day of the strike "they had to cover all school services", after receiving the night before a resolution from the General Directorate of Transport, which warned that it was "a service to the community".
In this regard, Moreno explains that the deadline to call a strike in a service of this type is stipulated in "ten days", which are met this Friday. Thus, he says that from then on only school transport that is included in "the minimum services" will be covered, which they currently do not know because they have to be stipulated by the General Directorate of Transport throughout this day.
Demands based on three pillars
It should be remembered that according to Intersindical Canaria, the demands of the staff are based on three pillars. On the one hand, they demand a salary increase calculating the CPI from 2011 to 2021, until the new collective agreement is approved, since it has not been negotiated since 2007.
On the other hand, they request that the company not continue to split the daily working hours of the workers, since in some cases "they are being split up to seven hours between service and service, on the same day, and the agreement does not state that the daily working hours can be split".
Finally, they demand that the agreement be complied with in relation to the availability bonus, and that the company provide and deliver, before the beginning of the following month, "a copy of the drivers who wish to work overtime and, if there are not enough volunteers to comply with the services, that another list be drawn up in order of seniority, and no driver may repeat in successive months without having gone through that list first".
