The CC.OO trade union has asked UGT, USO, Intersindical, Comisiones de Base and FSOC to set up a meeting to destroy the institutional stability of tourism in the south of Gran Canaria by attacking the agreement that it has had for two years with the hotel employers' association of Las Palmas, the FEHT. To do so, it has asked for meetings and that is supported by the signature of Javier Velasco, general secretary of trade union action in the Services area of CC.OO in the Canary Islands with an office in Tenerife. "They are godos, they must be looking for something in Madrid against the funds, they signed with the FEHT something that is in force, they pushed us aside like dirty water, we do not know what they want now," said a recipient of the CC.OO letter from a Canarian union.
Labour sources in the tourism sector told Maspalomas24H that "CC.OO is a transmission belt for the PSOE, although people on the Peninsula believe that it is a union in the line of Izquierda Unida, which in the islands is symbolic and what is happening there is that they want to take advantage of tourism to really plug an internal leadership crisis in CC.OO Canarias, it is nothing else." The letter sent by Velasco to the trade unions has its origin in what he denounces as the "precarious situation" of the workforce in the sector and which contradicts the collective agreement still in force. In the letter, to which Maspalomas24H has had access, the rest of the unions are proposed to take "joint action to reverse this situation."
Sources from UGT Canarias consulted by Maspalomas24H indicated that "we always have to listen" and recalled that "we do not know exactly what is intended given that the situation in Tenerife is not the same as that of Las Palmas." UGT Canarias ended last October by holding demonstrations against Blackstone interests in the south of Gran Canaria. When the collective agreement was made with the FEHT, the CC.OO union representation was in the hands of Borja Suárez, then general secretary of Services, and Francisco González, sectoral secretary of Hospitality and Tourism of UGT Canarias. For the employers' association, José María Mañaricua, president of the FEHT of Las Palmas.
