As is tradition, this past May 1st, on the occasion of International Workers' Day, the UGT and CC.OO unions planned to jointly hold a Concentration event to bring the events of both unions closer to the citizens of the municipalities. But this year, a day before, on April 30, the regional body of UGT urged the representatives of Lanzarote not to participate in that joint event with CC.OO. due to "a series of previous demonstrations that had caused a confrontation" between both unions, after UGT signed a unilateral agreement in relation to the ambulance strike that was harshly criticized by Comisiones Obreras. But despite these differences, Ramón Pérez has called UGT's absence from the Worker's Day events "regrettable," given the importance of the date for both organizations.
Thus, the May 1st celebrations by the island unions were divided. On the one hand, the CC.OO. union continued with the events programmed jointly with UGT under the slogan "For equality. Quality employment". These events consisted of a football match in homage to the colleagues and union cadres "Eusebio Méndez-Paco Tejera". And later, a manifesto was read by the general secretary and the executive secretary of CC.OO. Afterwards, they moved to the Tahíche Sociocultural Center to continue the party with a competition and performances by singer-songwriters that ended with card games and bowling among those present.
For its part, the UGT had a "traveling May 1st", according to the island secretary, Orlando Suárez, who states that the decision not to participate jointly with CC.OO. had been taken by the regional executive "a day before the celebration." Thus, they chose to show solidarity with "some colleagues from the Tourist Centers" and throughout the day they were touring the CACT's where the mobilizations of the workers of the centers were taking place and where the union representatives provided "support and advice to the strikers in the face of various incidents that occurred during the strike," according to Suárez.