The Inalsa Workers' Assembly has agreed to present a call for an indefinite strike. After holding a meeting this Wednesday, the employees have approved this strike, motivated by the attempt of the bankruptcy administrators to "cut their social rights", according to the Company Committee in a statement.
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, announced this week on Radio Lanzarote that a strike was threatening Inalsa, as confirmed later to La Voz by the Company Committee itself, which has finally carried out its threat.
With this strike, the employees intend to demand that the bankruptcy administrators "comply with the commitments acquired" with the Company Committee to avoid "the defenselessness in which the workers are immersed".
The spokesperson for the Committee, Ramón Pérez, explained to La Voz that the workers have not even been provided with the report that the administrators presented to the Commercial Court, requesting a change in the current working conditions. "They want to substantially modify our working conditions. How are we going to discuss with them if we don't even know what they have presented to the judge," Pérez denounced.
This spokesperson does not know how the strike will affect the company's productivity. And it is that, after reaching this agreement in the workers' assembly, a pre-strike notice will have to be presented and then the indefinite strike will begin. "Now we have to meet some deadlines to put this pressure measure into action in a few days", Pérez pointed out.
"The enlightened ones"
Ramón Pérez has explained the reasons why the workers have agreed to carry out this strike. "It is scandalous, disproportionate and abusive that some gentlemen who don't have a clue how to organize a company of these levels, come with this joy to tell us how we have to work. We find it more scandalous that they try to criticize some workers, who have nothing to be criticized", he denounced. In this sense, he pointed out that the employees "are the only ones who have defended the company tooth and nail to save it from other things".
"It is the workers who have avoided, putting money out of their own pockets, the dismissal of other employees. We are the workers who have signed with the unions and the Company Committee a collective agreement, which we have adjusted to relocate employees to make the company more competitive. And on top of that, they come to us with this story", he pointed out. "If anyone thinks that these enlightened ones of the bankruptcy are going to fix the company by taking away rights from the workers that are reflected in the collective agreement, they have no idea", he warned, while assuring that the employees "comply with the hours established in the agreement", contrary to what the bankruptcy administrators maintain [in a report made public by La Voz de Lanzarote.->57691]
"It would not occur to anyone to make a construction worker recover his 15 or 30 minutes for the sandwich", he criticized. "We feel attacked, because the administrators have acted in very bad faith", said Ramón Pérez, who insisted that the only thing they are trying to do is "justify the bad management that Inalsa has had for years", "blaming" the employees.
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