The latest resolution of the Labor Inspectorate at Lanzarote Airport reveals that during the strike days of Iberia workers, there was undocumented foreign labor that performed the duties of the striking personnel. In addition, workers from other Spanish airports were found during the inspection.
The strike committee reported to the Ministry of Labor the use of personnel from other airports to cover the deficiencies of the strikes. This fact was corroborated by the Labor Inspectorate, which reported that on the days the workers were on strike, personnel from Murcia, San Sebastián, Granada, Mahón, and three German operators from Hapag Lloyd, as well as personnel from Tenerife and Gran Canaria, worked in Lanzarote. The events were sanctioned by the Ministry after the drafting of a report that describes the employer's action as "very serious."
This is an achievement for the Iberia strike committee in Lanzarote, which once again complains about the 17 layoffs due to excess staff, something "that we do not understand because they have laid off workers with the excuse of excess staff and then bring people from outside," they point out. Regarding the operation of other workers to cover the strikes, the Iberia workers accuse the Airport Director, Dionisio CanoManuel, of being an accomplice by "allowing access to work for citizens without identification, without a contract, or insurance." The strike committee, headed by León Fajardo, also insists that "the layoffs have been subsidized with public money."
In a report, the Ministry of Labor has classified the event as very serious and illegal for violating the worker's right to call strikes to improve their working conditions, and "exerting a limiting effect by emptying the content of the right to strike." Iberia will have to pay 90,000 euros for this.
