CCOO: "Correos cuts summer hiring by 70% in the Canary Islands while boasting of profits"

Comisiones Obreras Canarias has denounced that Correos has reduced by around 70% summer hiring in the Insular Area of the Canary Islands compared to last year's summer campaign.

The union considers this to be the "biggest cut recorded to date" and warns that "this decision aggravates the staff shortage, increases pressure on the workforce, and deteriorates the quality of the Public Postal Service".

For CCOO, this reduction "does not respond to a specific circumstance or to temporary organizational needs, but to a continued strategy of employment adjustment" presented by the company under concepts such as "efficiency" or "productivity". In practice, the union points out, this policy translates into less hiring, a greater workload, and a progressive deterioration of working conditions.

The trade union organization considers it "especially contradictory" that these cuts occur while the Management of Correos presents the company as a strategic player for territorial and social cohesion, announces new public services, and "boasts about its economic results".

CCOO recalls that Correos' 2025 Annual Report shows 11.5 million euros in profit, but warns that this result cannot be analyzed without taking into account the sale of real estate assets and the continued policy of employment containment and reduction of labor costs.

"It is not reasonable to present these results as a business success while the workforce continues to lose staff and increase its workload," the union points out.

More temporality and fewer opportunities

CCOO denounces that Correos' labor policy continues to be marked by high temporality, standing at around 25%; thousands of people with "labor relations in fraud of law" pending regularization; high levels of part-time work, reaching 15%; "significant provisionality in appointments"; and a public employment offer frozen for four years.

The union also warns that this summer presents an unprecedented situation: "never before have those who remain working during the summer period had to do so with so little support hiring, and never before had those who expected to access a summer contract found so few employment opportunities."

CCOO underlines that this situation "directly impacts the quality of the service" that citizens receive and aggravates the workload of the staff, with an "increase in psychosocial risks and physical and emotional wear and tear".

In this regard, the union recalls that Correos currently registers the highest absenteeism levels in its recent history, a reality that, in its opinion, cannot be separated from the continued deterioration of working conditions.

"The staff has been supporting the transformation of Correos for years with less staff, a greater workload, and worse working conditions. Now it is the company that must fulfill its commitments," states CCOO.

Therefore, CCOO demands to recover the necessary hiring levels to guarantee a quality public service, cover all vacations, leaves, and absences, reinforce the staff, and open a real labor agenda that allows for the reduction of precariousness and the improvement of working conditions.

"Without quality employment, there can be no quality public service," concludes the union.