The concentrations and informative pickets that Comisiones Obreras is carrying out in hotels and shops throughout the island have “increased tension in the workplace”. This is what the union maintains, which assures that in one of the hotels where they demonstrated this Thursday they received “insults” and “threats”.
CCOO affirms that there were “several” incidents “with the hotel managers and security personnel hired exclusively in response to the announcement of the informative pickets”, although it makes special mention of the one that took place in an establishment in Puerto del Carmen.
According to them, one of the hotel managers directed “insults and disqualifications” at the demonstrators, who brought it to the attention of the Civil Guard officers who had come to the area. However, they claim that when they left, the same manager returned, “this time in a more aggressive attitude, to threaten and insult the workers who were demonstrating peacefully.”
“I'm going to give you a snog, you son of a bitch. Get out of the hotel, you sons of bitches”, they claim he said, addressing one of the protesters.
“CCOO Lanzarote is not going to allow this type of action against workers who demonstrate freely and peacefully, so it will study legal actions,” the union warns.
In addition, it launches another warning: “Far from intimidating us, union actions will increase in these workplaces.”
Concentrations will continue throughout the island
Comisiones Obreras began these mobilizations a week ago, to demand that employers put an end to the “blockade of salary increases and the intentional slowdown of the negotiation of the different collective agreements, especially in the hotel and commerce sectors.”
So far they have demonstrated in different hotels and shops, such as supermarkets, and next week they will continue in shopping and hotel centers, and in different workplaces in Playa Blanca.
In addition, it anticipates that these protests in the workplaces of the affected sectors will continue uninterruptedly during the coming months, and insists that it could conclude with a strike period during Easter if their demands are not met.
In this regard, the union makes “an appeal to employers to be aware of the damage that this conflict may cause to the image of the tourism sector abroad, at the moment we are in.”