The workers of the company Atlántica de Handling have overwhelmingly supported in assembly the agreement reached by the trade unions Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.) and UGT on the 20th, which will mean that the company will soon have the first collective agreement, as detailed by CC.OO. in a statement, in which it points out that this agreement makes it possible to definitively call off the strike and contributes to normalizing relations between the company and the workers.
Once the text of the agreement has been accepted, it will become part of the content of the next collective agreement, for whose negotiation a commission has been formed that will be in charge of drafting it and will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays of the month from January 9.
The agreement, which was then valued by the unions as "very positive", is the result of "the unity and mobilization of the workers" facilitated by the harmony between the two major unions.
According to the union, the agreement meets the demands of the workers' assemblies, both in economic and social matters. On the one hand, it points out, it improves the conditions of newly hired workers, and on the other hand it recognizes the rights of the subrogated personnel, who will see their income updated with the amounts they would have stopped receiving.
The majority support for the final agreement of CC.OO. and UGT contrasts with the unanimous rejection generated with the partial agreement that UGT presented to the workers weeks ago after the agreement reached with the company Binter.
"The workers' representatives are pleased that the agreement reached makes it possible for citizens to travel these days without inconvenience, and appreciate the support that passengers have shown them in the face of their just demands, in a community such as the Canary Islands where the vast majority of workers belong to the service sector and their legitimate labor claims, due to suffering the lowest wages in Spain, will always affect in one way or another the services used by the rest of the citizens," says CC.OO.
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