Hotel workers in Tenerife protest with a strike in the middle of Easter

Neither the latest offers of the employers’ office, which put on the table a progressive wage increase of 6%, nor the mediation of the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, have avoided the most feared scenario in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (which includes the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro and La Gomera). The hotel and tourist accommodations face this Thursday and Good Friday a strike that has begun between th…

A total of 80,000 people have been called to the strike that started today in the province of Santa Cruz. From early in the morning, hotel staff were demonstrating at the door to demand wage improvements.The unions were demanding a 6.25% salary increase to compensate for the loss of workers' purchasing power and social improvements, while the bosses commanded by Ashotel and AERO offered 5%.According to the Federation Sindical Canaria, the bigges…

The Canary Islands registered at the end of the year 2023 a total of 14.1 million foreign tourists , a new tourist record and almost a million more visitors before the pandemic, with an increase of 6.9%. However, this record is not extrapolated positively to the social majority, since the islands as reported by the Survey of Living Conditions of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) are the second community with the highest AROPE rate of ri…