The Employment Regulation File (ERE) that the Coca Cola company has proposed could also affect the 15 workers of the distribution company in Lanzarote. This was stated this Wednesday by the general secretary of UGT on the island, César Reyes, who recalled that throughout the country Coca Cola intends to dismiss 1,250 employees.
This ERE could affect the Coca Cola plants in the Canary Islands, and especially the distributors in Lanzarote and La Palma, since there are even "rumors that these two delegations could be closed", according to the representative of the workers for UGT, Juan Jesús Rodríguez, told La Voz.
In Lanzarote, the workers could suffer "a reduction in working hours or be fired." Therefore, César Reyes believes that it is "necessary to join efforts in the Canary Islands" so that workers defend their jobs in a company that "has closed with positive numbers in the Archipelago".
Reyes explained that from now on negotiations will begin to open, where "jobs in the Canary Islands will be at stake." "The negotiations are expected to be long, tense and hard and we will try to affect the workers of Lanzarote as little as possible," he insisted.
"Multi-million dollar benefits"
For Reyes, this situation is a "collateral effect" of the Labor Reform approved by the PP in 2012, since a company with "huge profits like Coca Cola" can dismiss 1,250 workers, "even after having had multi-million dollar profits at the close of the 2013 financial year". "The Labor Reform facilitates the termination of employment and this is one more example of the situation," he lamented on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
In this sense, the general secretary of UGT in Lanzarote has assured that Coca Cola has proposed this ERE "based on a reorganization of the company". "This was the hidden part of the Labor Reform, which the PP never wanted to explain. It allows the employer to dismiss solely and exclusively because he understands that the reorganization of the company will give him more benefits than he has," he criticized.
Therefore, he does not understand that a company with "barbaric profits intends to leave these families without work". "It does this because the Labor Reform allows it, which has been done to impoverish the workers of this country," said César Reyes.
