Iberia's handling workers at Fuerteventura Airport have decided to increase the strike days from two to nine in protest against the awarding of this service to other operators. In Lanzarote, the head of the company's Strike Committee, León Fajardo, has confirmed that they are not going to start any kind of mobilization, "but what we are going to do is demand that the new companies respect the sector agreement and accept the workers with the same conditions they had, which is what the agreement dictates".
Fajardo also commented that, like the workers in Fuerteventura, they are going to demand that the tender for the awarding of the handling be made public, "since according to rumors, the companies awarded the service in Lanzarote have made such a high offer, so reckless, that, possibly, they will not be able to meet the payments of the salaries established by the agreement". The representative of the Iberia Strike Committee also explained that the only way to know if these rumors are true is by making the awarding process public, "because there is a rule in all public concessions, that when an offer is reckless, as this would be, the concession is automatically not given".
The Committee representative also explained that they have not yet contacted anyone to demand that the process be made public because there is almost no activity during the month of August. Even so, León Fajardo assures that next September they will contact AENA and the two operators that have won the tender to "see with what attitude they come", since according to Fajardo, Lanzarote has a real problem, which is a strike that started a year ago, although it is now stopped. "Iberia leaves them a hot legacy that we hope the new companies will fix because otherwise the conflict will remain".
Fuerteventura Strike, reprehensible
León Fajardo, representative of the Iberia Strike Committee, also commented that, from a union point of view, the mobilizations in Fuerteventura are "reprehensible", since "behind these attitudes are hidden, in addition to personal interests, commercial interests or those of the company itself". Fajardo explained that Lanzarote will not take the same path because he considers that "what the workers of Fuerteventura are demanding is that Iberia does not leave the island".
The union representative of Iberia in Lanzarote also commented that the attitudes of the Majorera workers are inadmissible because "when they subrogated 35 percent of the Binter staff a year ago, they did nothing, they looked the other way because it did not represent a majority percentage, but now that they see their jobs in danger, everyone mobilizes".
