Comisiones Obreras has organized an assembly on November 5, for delegates and workers, with the aim of demanding the improvement of the main agreements "in the face of employer apathy."
The general secretary of CCOO Lanzarote, Vanessa Frahija, assures that several of the agreements such as those of hospitality and commerce, the furniture agreement - which has been "paralyzed for more than 20 years" - or the hardware and naval effects agreement, which "expires this year", reflect the "decrease in the purchasing power of workers."
Regarding the commerce agreement, which has been expired "since 2019", she states that if it has had small salary increases it has been "thanks to the Minimum Interprofessional Salary". "So little is charged in commerce that even the SMI has surpassed it," she questions.
From CCOO they maintain that the pandemic has been "the perfect excuse" for employers to understand that "it is not the best time to negotiate", to lengthen the negotiation over time and thus spend "some wonderful Christmases with an incredible sale in Lanzarote."
In addition, although the union points out that "it seems that the negotiation tables" of some sectors are resuming, Frahija clarifies that this has been said "since last year", and warns that "disposition" is not enough. "If we don't sit down to negotiate in truth, informing me that they have a predisposition is useless," she sentences.
From CCOO they assure that they are "not going to allow them to laugh in the face of the workers", and explain that with this assembly, which will be held at 10:30 a.m. next Friday in the José Ramírez Cerdá park, they intend to "be prepared" for what may happen. "If it is necessary to go out into the streets in the middle of Christmas to say that they should not continue laughing at the working class, we are going to do it," warns the general secretary, who adds that Lanzarote is "an example of struggle in the streets", and that it will be the workers "who achieve the improvements of the agreements."
"Fraud is being committed in certain contracts that do not comply with the regulations"
Vanessa Frahija assures that despite the evident reduction in unemployment, together with the economic recovery, Lanzarote is the island where there is "greater temporality and precarious hiring."
In that sense, the CCOO leader maintains that the inspection has agreed with them that "fraud is being committed in certain contracts that do not comply with the regulations," so many of those workers should become permanent.
"We have to continue working on specific policies because Lanzarote has many people unemployed," adds Vanessa Frahija, who assures that this does not mean that we have to "penalize certain sectors when they are taking the work forward, helping companies to continue enriching themselves."
