The management of the Tourist Centers has called for this Monday an Extraordinary and Urgent session of the Board of Directors of the Entity, a week after the start of the strike that keeps the CACT closed. The session will begin at 5:00 p.m. at the headquarters of the Centers and, in it, Coalición Canaria hopes to find support from the rest of the members of this body.
In the last point of the agenda, the proposal to ask the Strike Committee to accept submitting the conflict "to arbitration to obtain a binding award for both parties" will be submitted to a vote. And it is that although the Minister of Tourism, Echedey Eugenio, requested the mediation of the Canarian Labor Court last Thursday and the Committee has agreed to attend that meeting, it also warns that what is decided there is not binding.
As for the rest of the Council meeting this Monday, the management will begin "reporting" on the ruling issued almost a year and a half ago, in March 2016, by the Social Court Number 3 of Arrecife, and the one issued later, in November 2016, by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, "for its analysis." It was that last ruling that gave the workers the reason in relation to the payment of certain salary supplements and that has motivated this conflict, since the Committee and almost all the parties represented in the Cabildo demand its compliance and the management assures that it has already executed it.
In addition, in the midst of the criticism it has received from the entire opposition and even the PSOE, Coalición Canaria will report "on the chronology of the conflict" and will expose "the points of disagreement in the positions of the Strike Committee and the management of EPEL-CACT", as stated in the agenda. Similarly, it will report on the "legal reasons" that, according to CC, "prevent accepting the interpretation of article 23 of the collective agreement held by the Strike Committee".
