The hotel establishments of Lanzarote whose licenses have been declared illegal may be seeking the complicity of the unions to "prevent the sentence from being carried out", which in some cases, would entail demolition. This was denounced this Wednesday by the secretary of trade union action of Comisiones Obreras in Lanzarote, Ramón Pérez, on the Buenos Días Lanzarote program, on Radio Lanzarote, where he assured that they are receiving "guidance" from the hotel chains on "what to do and what not to do, regarding the loss of jobs".
The union feels that the hotel chains are trying to "take advantage" of a situation that "they have generated out of eagerness and all this type of tremendous intentions and all that money that has circulated through the territory". They assure that they do not intend to open any war against the companies, but they believe that "whoever has not complied with the law must comply with it now". According to Ramón Pérez, that does not prevent them from seeking ways to modify or correct what "they have done wrong".
"It's that they do things wrong and then they come to appeal", the union secretary assessed. In addition, he has been especially harsh with the construction fever experienced in recent years in Lanzarote. "There has been a well-being at a certain moment, which sounded like something and had us stunned, but that was a short-term solution and hunger for tomorrow", Pérez described, "and now we are in hunger".
Among the licenses that the Cabildo has appealed and those that the César Manrique Foundation has challenged, sentences have accumulated that have left more than twenty establishments outside the law, although not all will lead to demolition. The truth is that, for the moment, the only explicit case is the Hotel Papagayo Arena, since apart from the nullity of the license, it has an expropriation file open by the General Directorate of Coasts to proceed with the demolition.
For her part, the president of the First Institution, Manuela Armas, is holding meetings with promoters in order to negotiate alternatives to demolition, regularizing their situation, although she already assured at the time that in many cases it was going to be "very difficult".