The Centers' staff has returned to work, and the CACTS are once again part of the tourist route for visitors with complete normality. From this Thursday and after the agreement reached before the Canary Islands Labor Court, the strike has been suspended cautiously, until next Monday the Assembly approves to definitively call it off. "We have surveyed several workers and they agree with the proposal we have closed," says the union representative, Héctor Noda, who trusts in the Assembly's support for the proposal closed before the Court.
The agreement has been possible because finally the Works Council withdrew from its demands the availability bonus to be incorporated into the four extra payments and its request for one hundred percent payment in case of substitution. In addition, the EPEL management has managed to ensure that its two proposals on the annual calculation and the transport of workers are conditioned to the analysis of their viability.
Apart from the ratification of the Assembly, this proposal will have to be approved by the Board of Directors and the Island Council Plenary. The principle of agreement has been valued by the EPEL management as "very satisfactory, as it has allowed to introduce, for the first time, a different dynamic in the negotiation process, incorporating factors and positive objectives for the interests of the Island, which will enable the modernization and improvement of the public entity".
In any case, the management has expressed that "regrets the serious inconveniences generated to all visitors and the damages caused to the image of the Island, and expresses its wish that this type of situation will not be repeated in the future".