Hospitality staff in Tenerife protest with a strike in the midst of Holy Week | Economy | EUROtoday

Neither the newest employer’s presents – which placed on the desk a progressive wage rise of 6% – nor the mediation of the Canarian President, Fernando Clavijo, have averted essentially the most feared situation within the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (which encompasses the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro and La Gomera). The hospitality and vacationer lodging face this Thursday and Good Friday a strike that has begun between reproaches of unions and employer because of the failure of an try of final minute settlement that might not be closed on Wednesday and during which the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, measured. The Secretary General of the CC OO Services Federation within the Canary Islands, Borja Suárez, has encrypted the “between 35% and 50%” on this primary day. “It is a success,” he stated, “especially if we take into account the tariffs imposed by the Ministry with minimum services of between 15% and 25% as if the hospitality were an essential activity,” he denounced. “The counselor [de Turismo y Empleo, Jessica de León] He has made a custom suit to the industry. ”According to the Base Trade Union, the comply with -up has reached 70%.

The Provincial Associations of Hospitality of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, —AShotel (Hotel and Extrahotelera Association of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro) and Aero (Association of Restoration and Leisure Entrepreneurs) -, had achieved on Wednesday morning a pre -agreement with base, use, Use, Canarian intersindical and CC OO union. Only UGT opposed. The employees’ assemblies gathered late within the afternoon, nevertheless, rejected the 6percentsalary enhance proposal, to which the introduction of lifting beds and the assure of sustaining the buying energy in settlement was added. For the latter, it was deliberate to allow a desk earlier than April 30.

The pre -agreement was a wage enhance of two% from the month of July, to which one other 2% was added as of April to compensate for the lack of buying energy of employees. Likewise, the doc added one other 2% rise in July that utilized solely in these inns that didn’t have present wage pacts. The enhance within the case of the restoration was 3%. It additionally included a clause during which the enterprise half promised to ensure buying energy in employees’ salaries. The hospitality within the province of Tenerife makes use of 76,821 folks within the two subsectors that make it up: lodging providers, with 33,633 working folks, and food and drinks providers, with 43,188, in response to social safety information.

The supervisor of Ashotel, Juan Pablo González, has described this Thursday as a “huge nonsense” that unemployment is maintained, which considers that it doesn’t reply to financial causes or labor enhancements, “but to union care.” “We feel surprise and disappointment,” he stated in statements to the media. He added that his 6% wage rise supply was “sincere” so they are going to now return to collective bargaining ranging from scratch, with a “blank leaf.” Speaking to journalists, he commented {that a} strike has a “deterrent” energy that has served for the employer to barter however “the day that nuclear weapons are used, as the film is over.” “We have nothing to talk about,” he stated.

The Deputy Minister of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Manuel Sanabria, confused this Thursday that the vacationer strike convened within the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife develops with “tranquility” and “normal”. Speaking to journalists, he stated that the Executive respects the employees’ strike days, however, on the identical time, he has defended the minimal providers set by his division, since they’re days of “very high occupation” vacationer within the archipelago.

Borja Suárez has justified this Thursday the upkeep of the protest during which the union requested a wage enhance and prevention plans that take into consideration rising workloads. “While the price of the rooms has risen as the highest in Spain, wages are still anchored in the agreed in a pandemic scenario of uncertainty,” he denounced. “We started badly yes [Jorge] Marichal [presidente de Ashotel] He believes that the loss of purchasing power of workers is limited to 2%. ”

For CC OO, the employer of Santa Cruz de Tenerife “has not wanted to reach an agreement”, because it has occurred within the province of Las Palmas, the place the strike was disturbed this week with an increase of gross wage of 8% by 2025, 4% since January 2026, the implementation of elevable beds and the dedication of the prioritization of the continued shifts.

The president, Fernando Clavijo, has repeatedly confused the necessity to increase salaries within the sector. “I agree on the concern that entrepreneurs have,” he stated in January 2024, however from his standpoint, “a transfer of wealth, on the part of the benefits towards the salary mass; the incentives must be translated in that the worker knows that if he strives more and is more committed to the company, he will have a reflection in the payroll and not in the account of the company.” “They raise their salary to their employees,” he stated.