Vanesa Frahija has been re-elected this Monday as general secretary of Comisiones Obreras in Lanzarote, in a congress in which she was the only candidate. “Four years ago there were two candidacies, but this time we have managed to work unanimously”, she told La Voz.
In addition, she has highlighted that the secretary of organization will continue with her, whom she has referred to as her “right hand”, although the rest of the Executive has been completely renewed. Together with Frahija Betancor, Alejandro Domínguez Delgado, Luisa Serrano Sánchez, Yolanda Casaldarnos and Rafael Martín Santana will be on the Executive Committee.
“Our objective is to continue fighting for the workers and have quarry delegates, new people, young people who are entering the union and who believe in Comisiones Obreras”, she highlighted.
During the Congress, the management report of the last four years was also presented, which states that it has been approved “unanimously”. In it, they emphasize that CCOO has 56% of the representation of Lanzarote. “That cannot be said by any other island. None has the representation that CCOO has here, because there are many unions and it is normally more distributed”, she stressed.
In addition, she has defended that during the last years they “have not stopped” mobilizing on the island, both for labor conflicts and to demand reforms from the Government. Regarding the road ahead, she affirms that this year “is going to be very hard”. “We have a storm ahead, because this is not going to be easy”, she warned after her re-election. And she considers that “many companies are going to use what is happening to destroy employment and create more precariousness, and even more in Lanzarote”.
In fact, she affirms that “it is already happening”. “Every day we are receiving communication of the opening of Employment Regulation Files, that is, collective dismissals. And for us it is unacceptable that companies are financed with public money, which are the ERTEs, to then fire them. That is what we are watching, the hidden EREs. We are not going to allow the abuse of the employers at this time. Right now we all have to row together and maintain jobs”, said Vanesa Frahija.
Among other authorities, the Minister of Economy and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, Elena Máñez, as well as the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, and the councilor Ariagona González, attended the union's Congress.