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The association of chambermaids, Las Kellys de Lanzarote, gathered this Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Princesa Yaiza hotel to denounce the working conditions of the workers at this accommodation. "The hotel's 8-hour chambermaids are exhausted, they don't understand that luxury is paid for with precarious employment, subjected to an extreme workload that does not contemplate rest times," Las Kellys have denounced.
The association has stated that "there was already a meeting with the company and it committed to solving said overload." However, Las Kellys have announced that "negotiations have broken down" and that is why they have met in front of the doors of these facilities to support their colleagues.
Regarding the negotiations, they pointed out that this Tuesday "the hotel management met with its workers to inform them that if the Las Kellys Association gathered at the doors of the hotel, negotiations would be broken off." "We do not accept threats," they have assured in relation to this fact, also pointing out that "negotiations were broken off on June 7".
In this sense, the association in Lanzarote has published on its Facebook profile a document signed on this date by the president of the Works Council in which he informs the hotel management that three delegates no longer belong to the Floor Commission and the Permanent Commission. A decision that they assure is due to "the repeated failures by the company to quickly solve the problems referring to these commissions," according to the writing.
However, Las Kellys have accused the president of the Committee of "playing on both sides", since in a writing signed this Wednesday he has shown his "rejection of the concentration." "This Committee has been working on these improvements for years, achieving numerous advances agreed in the Safety and Health Committee, which is why we do not understand that this association is concentrating unilaterally in front of the hotel without prior notice, making our negotiations with the company difficult and, therefore, harming all the workers of the Princesa Yaiza Hotel", he points out in the writing published by the association on its Facebook page.