The newly created trade union section of CNT in the Tourist Centers has taken the company to the Canary Labor Court requesting an act of conciliation of collective conflict, in which it intends to claim the "immediate recognition" as permanent staff of those workers hired temporarily either through the ETT Activa Trabajo Canarias or directly through the EPEL-CACT.
In a letter sent to the Court, CNT claims in the first place the "immediate recognition of the illegal transfer of workers that currently involves the hiring by Activa Trabajo Canarias ETT of a large part of the staff" of the Centers, also demanding the recognition "as permanent staff" of the personnel that is under these conditions that, in addition to being hired temporarily, they consider that it is "in fraud of law".
In these circumstances is precisely the union delegate appointed by CNT, Osvaldo García, who has also filed a lawsuit in the Court in which he states that he has been chaining "more than 40 fraudulent contracts" in the last six months.
However, the union also claims the "immediate recognition of fraud in the hiring of personnel with temporary contracts" that could be hired through the EPEL-CACT "making their employment relationship indefinite".
Interim positions and seniority of workers
It also asks that the "fraud in the hiring of personnel after passing the opposition tests for interim positions" be recognized. And, according to CNT, "there is no such interim position, but it covers structural permanent positions of the staff". In addition, it points out that the opposition tests have been "a real nonsense in themselves, as they were directed from the beginning by the ETT itself instead of by the public company".
Similarly, the union demands the recognition "of the appropriate professional categories" to the workers who are in the previous situations, since otherwise it states that "a fraud is being incurred to the Treasury of Social Security, eliminating the categories of auxiliary or assistant". In addition, it asks that the seniority of the workers "from the beginning of the employment relationship with the ETT" be recognized.
Although CNT highlights that both the EPEL-CACT and the ETT Activa Trabajo Canarias have 250 workers each, it does not specify how many would be hired "in fraud". In fact, another of the issues it claims is that they be given a copy of the list of contracts and number of workers of the CACT group of companies, as well as the Equality Plans.
Rest hours and elimination of overtime
Among its demands, which CNT has also sent to the EPEL-CACT and the ETT Activa Trabajo Canarias, the union also demands that "the twelve hours of rest between two days be made effective as established in the Workers' Statute" and that "continuous shift days, instead of split shift" be favored, as well as that "the performance of overtime be eliminated".
Likewise, the union requests "to carry out the conciliation of family and work life of all those workers with children under 12 in their care or with dependent elderly in their care, without the need to reduce the working day and consequent reduction of salary, as established in the new wording of the Workers' Statute in this regard".
"Real" measures for the prevention of occupational hazards
CNT also demands that "safety clothing and footwear be provided to the entire staff" and that "real occupational risk prevention measures be applied in the workplaces", since it denounces that "not even the simplest elements are applied.
In this sense, it asks for the elimination of steps in the bar areas of Jameos and the MIAC-Castillo de San José, as well as the adaptation of the floor of restaurants such as Jameos, which it says "causes even customers to fall from their chairs rolling to the track". It also demands the delimitation of the pool area in Jameos and the adaptation in El Almacen "a dining room for staff", as well as in other centers "in which there is no such thing".
In addition, the union requests that the necessary measures be applied for compliance with accessibility regulations and that compliance with consumer information regulations on food be also met. And, in the statement sent to inform of its creation, CNT denounced that "things as simple as informing about allergens are not complied with, since none of the letters from all the bars and restaurants has the necessary pictograms".
Finally, CNT demands a union local "as a representative union in the company" and, as such, the use of union notice boards in the group of companies of the Centers.
