The trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has called a demonstration this Thursday, September 4 in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria to denounce the “precariousness” of the labor situation of workers in the commerce sector.
Specifically, all those who are under the so-called SME Agreement of the province of Las Palmas, "expired since December 31, 2023 due to the deadlock in collective bargaining."
It includes workers from supermarkets, wholesalers, retailers and food distributors; workers of leather, leather and footwear, as well as textiles, multiple commerce bazaars, bookstores and stationery stores, opticians and fishmongers.
CCOO denounces that “companies that proclaim themselves as defenders of the territory, have precarious staff. They work 365 days a year, holidays and even morning and afternoon shifts in the best of cases and all this for a salary that is around 1280 euros net with the pro rata payments included."
In them, the union continues, “there are poor workers, who have to leave work and go to the hunger lines because the meager salaries they pay them are not enough to eat.”
CCOO also denounces the partiality of many contracts that it describes as “labor slavery” in these times.
According to the union, employers use partial contracts so that workers “work more hours for the same price” and “without being able to reconcile in a real way because the need will make them available 24/7.”
Likewise, the union will also demonstrate this Thursday in Tenerife to also denounce the homologous agreement in the western province: Santa Cruz de Tenerife Food Agreement.