The unions are considering calling a new strike in the hospitality sector in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife every Friday in July and August, following the one held last Easter.
Sindicalistas de Base, the majority union in the sector, announced the meeting of the union committee next Monday, 16 June, where they will propose the start of protests at the doors of major hotel chains and strike days, from 4 July, every Friday in that and the following month.
Before starting the meeting between the employers and unions held this Monday, the General Secretary of Sindicalistas de Base, Manuel Fitas, recalled that on 29 May they gave the business side a fifteen-day deadline to respond to their demand for a 6.5% salary revision before negotiating a new agreement.
In view of the “stubbornness” of the employers’ associations Ashotel and Aero in tying that salary increase to the opening of the agreement negotiations, including the removal of the companies’ supplement to social security benefits for staff on sick leave, they have taken the step to propose a new escalation in the labour conflict.
This is an “absolutely non-negotiable red line” for the union, as is the irregular distribution of working hours to offset the impact on companies of the upcoming reduction of working hours to 37.5 hours. For all these reasons, they plan to protest again in hotel establishments this summer.
