Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has announced a “hot summer” with concentrations in the airports “in the middle of the season due to the lack of progress in the negotiation tables of the employers’ associations."
“We have made a great effort to try to bring positions closer at the tables, renouncing many of our demands”, they assure from CCOO, and they denounce that while this situation occurs in the union part, the representatives of the employers maintain their position “immovable, selfish and intransigent”. “They continue without barely moving from their initial position, trying to keep wage increases well below the increase in prices and even below the Minimum Interprofessional Wage”, they add from the union.
The union maintains that, given this “systematic blockade” of negotiations by the business side, it has already requested the measurement of the Government of the Canary Islands in this conflict, which has been occurring since 2019, and which they say maintains an unsustainable situation “to more than 130,000 working families.”
Comisiones explains that during this time families remain with a "salary freeze", derived from this “intentional slowdown” of employers. “They continue to increase profits at the cost of not raising salaries in almost 3 years and with a runaway CPI that aggravates the situation,” they criticize from the union.
Therefore, from CCOO they announce that they are starting the calendar of mobilizations for this summer, starting on July 1 at the César Manrique – Lanzarote airport, from 10 in the morning. In addition, they point out that they will continue throughout the summer, with the actions decided in the different assemblies.
“We cannot allow thousands of working families to continue with salaries that do not allow them to live with a minimum of dignity. If we have to camp at the doors of the airports throughout the summer, to find a solution to this conflict, we will do it”, they denounce from the union.
From CCOO Lanzarote they once again call on the workers of the island to participate in the protests. “We cannot assume to continue being poor workers and continue losing purchasing power, hence the importance of renewing agreements with decent salary increases”, they demand from the union.
Comisiones Obreras requests from the employers “a minimum of respect” towards working families, and that they begin to negotiate in truth “with proposals that can be assumed to current times.”
“We consider it a great cynicism to say publicly that there is a lack of professionals to work, when salary increases and working conditions have been kept ‘kidnapped’ for years in the main sectors of the island”, concludes the union.
