In Las Palmas, they are going to give away around 200 stevedoring positions at 4.000 euros a month

They keep quiet about it so that there is no equality of conditions with potential workers from the south of Gran Canaria. Gran Canaria barely exports anything and everything that moves the port of Las Palmas is due to the tourism industry in the south of the island, which is the economic capital of the Canary Islands. However, people from the south of Gran Canaria to earn 4.000 euros a month must work an average of 21 hours a day, which is to say: impossible. Dockers earn that for six hours a day and, if there is a good ship that requires fast unloading, overtime, they can reach other net amounts per month with luck. To be a docker you do not have to have a great career: there are online qualifications for 70 euros in Las Palmas that give access to legal filters and in the Peninsula the same but somewhat more expensive.

The right-wing union that controls the labour market rules with Franco's laws, Coordinadora de Trabajadores Portuarios, camouflaged as a nationalist stevedores' union, the Boluda director, Francisco Javier Climent, the latter surname being in 0,05% of the island's families, together with the Astican salesman, Bernardino Santana, would be finalising the list of those chosen to form part of the stevedores' staff at the Port of Las Palmas. There is a first block that closes on 16 December and another in April 2025. The workers in the south of Gran Canaria and even those in Arinaga have no right to anything except to be servants of the people of Las Palmas. The Port Authority of Las Palmas leaves this labour issue in the hands of companies and the right-wing dockers' union, and neither UGT nor CC.OO have any control over it because they always threaten to paralyse the port if someone goes to review the contracting map.

Boluda and Astican, partners in the company that manages the stevedoring of this state-owned port, want the stevedores' jobs to go to the children or grandchildren of workers in the sector who have been docile and, obviously, there are too many people from the south of the rest of Gran Canaria. Both have been the companies that have tried to torpedo the Domingo Alonso car terminal project in order to maintain price control in the work of unloading cars. The hiring is done by Sagep Las Palmas but the website does not work.

The port of Las Palmas, thanks to the tourist attraction of Maspalomas, will set a new record on its two docks: east and west, each of which is 900 metres long. On one side there are three cranes and on the large dock, five, but it is never enough. The size of the ships is growing. There are only two cranes to serve the largest ships in existence, with 24.000 containers. These ships need four, five or six hands to work. The number of stevedores in Las Palmas is now 430 people with up to 23 extra shifts due to traffic needs. The shifts are 6 hours long and there are less than 150 movements on average in a day per month. 130 new stevedores have already joined the workforce and in 2024 around 25 will retire. In 2025, around 130 new stevedores should be added.