Unacceptable, regrettable, despicable, shameful, humiliating, treacherous... These are just a few of the adjectives that come to mind to describe the behavior of the Iberia company. We are very sorry to have to ...
Unacceptable, regrettable, despicable, shameful, humiliating, treacherous... These are just a few of the adjectives that come to mind to describe the behavior of the Iberia company. We are very sorry to have to remember it, but we already said it. It was in yesterday's edition, in which our colleague Alex Salebe, complying with the old journalistic ritual of contrasting all information, called the Press Office of the former public company to learn more about the tremendous statement they sent in the hours prior to the theoretical negotiation with the Lanzarote Strike Committee. It was the Press Office itself that warned our colleague that the company's managers were not going to attend the meeting that had been organized to try to resolve a conflict that has seriously jeopardized the image of our Biosphere Reserve. The excuse, a lie considering that there were two tickets reserved that were later canceled, was that they had not been summoned.
Although we were confident that everything was a confusion of the Press Office, and not the other way around, the information was finally confirmed. Iberia managers did not attend the meeting organized by the Island Council in coordination with the General Directorate of Labor of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Labor Inspectorate and the Island Directorate of the General State Administration in Lanzarote. You only had to see the faces of those attending the meeting to realize the magnitude of the snub made by one of the parties in charge of resolving the conflict. How can a private company afford to leave so many authorities stranded, how can they do such a thing without anything happening, without being immediately sanctioned for being irresponsible?
A simple company like this, with private capital after the questionable privatization process to which it was subjected, cannot do something like what it has done. Even if it was just to make a show, they should have sent someone. They have not taken into account that such important figures as the head of the Labor Inspectorate in the Canary Islands, Juan de Dios Fernández, has had the generosity to suspend his vacations to come to Lanzarote to try to solve a problem that obviously already goes beyond the island level. It is obvious that they do not understand generosity or anything like it. Rather, on the contrary, they understand what is the arrogance and swagger of those who do not understand what it means to live in a territory far from the mainland. These types of people are incapable of understanding how important the Canary Islands are to the economy of the entire country.
These people don't seem to have realized that the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is here on vacation.
We trust that measures will be taken, that Rodríguez Zapatero himself will know the slap in the face that they have given us again from Madrid.
We sincerely hope that a binding award will finally be decreed that buries the conflict, for the good of the workers and for the good of Lanzarote. That's enough.
