The workers of Lanzarote Bus and all the companies of the group (Guaguas Lanzarote, Jocaba and Guaguas Jocaba) have announced a notice of indefinite strike from December 2, given the “breaches” they denounce on the part of the company.
The Transport Federation of Intersindical Canaria and the delegates of the companies, “with the support endorsed with their signatures of 95% of the workers”, registered the pre-notice last week, after having unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with the company, which they accuse of having acted with “little will” to reach an agreement.
As a result of that communication, the company called a new meeting on November 25, but the union describes some of its proposals as “derisory”.
The demands of the staff are based on three axes. On the one hand, they demand a salary increase calculating the CPI from 2011 to 2021, until the new collective agreement is approved, since this 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, given that in some cases they are being split up to seven hours between service and service, on the same day, and the agreement does not include that the daily working day can be split”.
Finally, they demand that the agreement be complied with in relation to the availability bonus, and that the company have 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 before”.
Regarding this point, in the last meeting the company promised to comply with what was established, but on the economic claim, Intersindical questions that they offered “a derisory supplement of 26.09 euros per month”. Regarding the division of the daily working day, they were invited to present a collective dispute, “so that a judge can determine”, so it did not respond to this demand either.
