Swissport workers have decided to end the strike they have been holding since August 22 at Lanzarote airport. The decision was adopted at the assembly held on Monday afternoon, where the majority decided to accept the company's latest proposal and end the stoppages, which had already lasted 22 days.
The last official meeting took place last Friday and ended without an agreement, but the head of Swissport in Spain, Pino Marín Curbelo, contacted the Strike Committee directly over the weekend. Thus, he accepted the Committee's proposal on the point that frustrated the negotiations last Friday, regarding the recognition of the hours worked by part-time workers.
"He spoke to us and there began to be rapprochement. He offers us that draft again but changing that point in our favor and adding some more that we had asked them for and they had forgotten to put it in the draft," explained on Monday morning one of the members of that Committee, Lorenzo Montelongo, on Radio Lanzarote – Onda Cero.
In those statements, the unionist already expressed his conviction that the workers would approve calling off the strike, as finally happened. After the weekend's conversations, a final meeting was held with the company this Monday and subsequently the workers met in assembly, voting by majority to end this measure. "Tomorrow (for this Tuesday) it will be communicated to the competent authority," they explain from the Committee.
