The Assembly of Workers of the Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism (CACT) ratified this Thursday the new labor agreement. "We are so happy that it seems like a new world is beginning within the centers," says the president of the Works Council, Antonio Bonilla, "it's as if the staff is coming together again," he adds.
The CEO of the Tourist Centers, Benjamín Perdomo, has announced on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero the progress in the approval of this new collective agreement for workers. "In total, 171 people voted in the polls, 60 against," according to data provided by Bonilla.
Regarding the content of this agreement, the president of the Works Council points out that "it has quite a few social improvements. Before, the company paid you 75% of your salary, now it pays you 100%, the grants for university and compulsory education studies have increased, and also the collection of bonuses for objectives."
He also highlights that "above all, it has improved in dismissals. When a company opens a file on a worker, we have managed to ensure that it is the worker who decides whether to opt for the settlement or for the job: "It is a fairly relevant social improvement to prevent a politician from paying with public money the settlement of a worker because they don't like them."
Benjamin Perdomo was equally excited, confessing that he is "very happy to reap the rewards after a year and three months of negotiations without making noise," he said during his radio appearance this Friday morning. Likewise, the CEO of CACT assured that these negotiations have been done "without mistreating, insulting, or whipping" the workers.
He also highlighted that it is "the first time" that the staff of the Tourist Centers "begins to gain rights" and recalled that the negotiations with Coalición Canaria during his term were "a massive cut in rights." "CC took away their seniority," he said.
In this line, Bonilla wanted to remind that the CACT workers have never had access "to the optometrist or the dentist. We want to deny that."
Likewise, the CEO of CACT insisted that "the most important thing" in this new agreement "is that the workers gave their approval." Benjamín Perdomo wanted to highlight the work of the Cabildo de Lanzarote in improving the relationship with the workers of the Tourist Centers. "Until María Dolores Corujo came to the presidency, everything was insults, everything was reproaches to the workers," Perdomo recalled, "that is the result of how things were treated."
"Very happy to continue with this tranquility on the island of Lanzarote, even if it bothers a few, especially a specific party," concluded Perdomo, without specifying what these modifications will consist of. After the approval of the new agreement, it remains to be passed by the Board of Directors and by the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
This progress must then be processed in the Board of Directors and in the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
