The Tourism Federation of Lanzarote has reiterated in a statement that “the province of Las Palmas has one of the best collective agreements in the tourism sector in Spain, with job stability and remuneration above the average”.
In a statement sent to the media, also signed by the employers' associations FEHT and Asofuer, they explain that, according to their calculations, “between 2004 and 2024 the salaries agreed and fulfilled by agreement have grown by 50.63% in the province of Las Palmas, while the provincial CPI did so by 42.20%”.
Thus, they have formally urged this Friday the union organizations represented in the negotiating commission to open collective bargaining in the sector.
To this end, the tourism employers' associations have registered this request at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Labor of the Government of the Canary Islands, as the competent administration in the procedure for this negotiation.
The tourism employers in the province expressed their “full willingness to open negotiations with the unions, with the horizon mainly focused on signing a new collective agreement that guarantees stability in employment, security of jobs, maintaining the purchasing power of workers and the viability of companies”.
They highlighted that “they have always attended in good faith all the meetings to which they have been convened with a constructive spirit, even with the proposal to open the negotiating table, as in this case, while the unions have done so until now with strike notices”.
The employers' associations, “even respecting this constitutional right, consider (the strike notices) disproportionate and, of course, hardly compatible with the climate of negotiation recommended in the process to renew the collective agreement of the sector in the province of Las Palmas, where the salaries are among the best in the tourism sector in Spain”.
The business associations thanked the mediation carried out by the Ministry of Tourism and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, in the persons of its Minister, Jessica de León, and the General Director of Labor, José Ramón Rodríguez, but continue to bet on collective bargaining.
The tourism employers' association also pointed out that “there are other additional elements that recommend prudence” such as “the uncertainty about the global economic scenario” or “the imminent reduction of the working day proposed by the central Government”.