The Hospitality Trade Union Board has called for two demonstrations this Friday 27th in the south of the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria as a pressure measure on the employers' associations of the sector in both provinces and the Government of the Canary Islands to mediate, in order to reach an agreement and sign a new collective agreement. In the south of Tenerife, the mobilization will start at 17:00 from the Hotel H10 Conquistador and will go along the coastal avenue to the Salytien Shopping Center, while in Gran Canaria it begins at the same time, from the Hotel Lopesan Villa del Conde to the Hotel Faro Maspalomas.
What they are asking for is: to establish a salary review for the year 2025 in line with the turnover and profits of the sector's employers accumulated in recent years and measures aimed at reducing the workload imposed on all companies in the sector and which "are triggering" the processes of absenteeism due to temporary disability, are two of the demands of the Trade Union Board. Likewise, it demands a continuous working day in all departments that improves the conciliation of work and family life of workers in the tourism sector and to promote collective transport by companies for their workers that helps reduce the current collapse of the roads and thereby reduce pollution.
The Canarian Trade Union Federation has indicated that the demonstrations are a pressure measure both on the employers' associations of the sector in both provinces and on the Government of the Canary Islands. "We ask the Executive to mediate and call the employers' associations and unions to reach an agreement on the demands that we represent as trade union organisations in defence of the workers in the tourism sector in the Canary Islands," said the FSC.
The Canarian Trade Union Federation (FSC), which includes the Canary Islands Grassroots Trade Unionists (SBC) and the Canary Islands Workers' Trade Union Front (FSOC), has called on UGT to join the Hospitality Roundtable to demand improved working conditions and wages for the more than 160.000 workers employed by the sector.
Negotiation of the agreement. Following the mobilization on October 20 throughout the Canary Islands to demand a change in the tourism model and better wages in the sector, trade union unity was requested with the aim of demanding that the employers' associations in the sector in both provinces open negotiations for the collective agreement signed in 2022.
The FSC expects a massive response to the two demonstrations called that "will force employers to negotiate union demands to improve wages and working conditions" and warns that, if there is no rapprochement, the mobilizations will continue and would end with a call for a general strike at Easter. The Hospitality Trade Union Roundtable is made up of the FSC, CCOO, IC and USO and maintains that the salary review established in 2022 was agreed when we were coming out of a crisis due to the zero tourism caused by the pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine, but the situation has changed in the sector with "record turnover and profits in 2023 and 2024".
The Canarian Trade Union Federation (FSC), which includes the Canarian Grassroots Trade Unionists (SBC) and the Canarian Workers' Trade Union Front (FSOC), has called on UGT this Tuesday to join the Hospitality Roundtable to demand better working conditions and wages for the more than 160.000 workers employed by the sector. It recalls that the Hospitality Roundtable has called for two demonstrations next Friday 27th in the south of the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria as a pressure measure on the employers' associations of the sector in both provinces and on the Government of the Canary Islands to mediate, in order to reach an agreement and sign a new collective agreement.
Following the mobilisation on 20 October throughout the Canary Islands to demand a change in the tourism model and better wages in the sector, trade union unity was requested with the aim of demanding that the employers' associations in the sector in both provinces open negotiations for the collective agreement signed in 2022. Establishing a salary review for 2025 in line with the turnover and profits of employers in the sector accumulated in recent years and measures aimed at reducing the workload imposed on all companies in the sector and which are "shooting up" the processes of absenteeism due to temporary disability, are two of the demands of the Trade Union Board.
