Comisiones Obreras has stated in a press release this Friday, before the imminent arrival of the strike in the hotel industry during Easter Week, that "the employers have gone, in two months, from talking about the little importance of the strike to dedicating themselves, in the purest dictatorial style, to violating a constitutional right such as the right to strike."
The union, which demanded a salary increase to improve the quality of life of workers and the recovery of purchasing power, has assured that the hotel companies "are dedicated to threatening as if we were in the strike in 1978 and the Political Social Brigade was around here", from the Franco regime. In this sense, they have assured that "they threaten with dismissal, they seek to coerce alleging that 'what will happen to you the day after the strike?'", thus, they assure that "they misinform the workers seeking to make them afraid of a right, taking advantage of the job insecurity and salary crisis created by themselves."
Thus, CCOO has indicated that "all the people who 'smell' that they want to attend the strike are dedicated to giving them vacations and days off." In addition, the union has assured that they have "been forced to file several lawsuits", because the hoteliers are dedicated to "supplying the impact of the strike, either offering up to 100 euros to go to work on strike days, or seeking to supplant the people who support the strike with temporary work companies."
Comisiones Obreras has assured that "we are facing a historical moment as was the strike of 1978, where those brave people obtained rights that we still maintain today. It is the responsibility of the workers not to lose a right as important as the right to strike."
In the same way, it has warned that it will sue and make public "any type of threat, extortion or coercion. We will not allow the working class to be silenced and we will work to be its shield."
To conclude, they have assured that they will achieve "that the strike is a success and that the workers can exercise their right, a fundamental right for the working class. WORKER DIGNITY IS NOT FOR SALE!"
