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Called a general strike in the hospitality industry in the Holy Week and the Side of the Garden | Radio Murcia

“As is well burrear to more than 50,000 families in the Region,” said Antonio Jiménez, of UGT, which accuses the hospitality industry to find a new excuse to not unlock the collective agreement: “the DANAS and the situation of the deterioration of the Mar Menor”.

So what has been said during the press conference in which UGT and CCOO-have announced the call for strike in the sector in the Region for Holy Week and the Side of the Garden. They will be days of 24-hour strike on days 3, 8, 9, 10 and 14 April, has explained Santiago Navarro, CCOO.

Accuse employers of forcing delete the add-on of disability and propose a pay rise very low. Remember that 14 categories in the convention that are below the Minimum Wage.

From UGT, Antonio Jiménez, insists on the need for a new convention, but also that the provision of more resources to the inspection to detect fraud in the procurement, trading and working hours.

The heads of the national Federations of hotel and Catering CCOO and UGT, Gonzalo Fuentes and Omar Rodriguez, respectively, have regretted that the employment that is created here is more precarious and with lower salaries than in other regions. Accuse the innkeepers here do unfair competition to its peers in other autonomous communities.

The last proposal of the employer passes a pay rise of 2.2% for the 2020, 2021 and 2022, but the unions criticize that is oriented would relinquish the increases in 2018 and 2019.

In Today Region of Murcia we have interviewed the heads of the federations of the hospitality of both unions at state and regional level. You can listen here the full interview:

Listen to Interview with the leaders of UGT and CCOO after the convening of the general strike in the hospitality industry of the Region of Murcia, in the Play BE

What says Hostemur?

The hospitality employers shows his surprise by this call, because on Monday they have a meeting to continue to negotiate the convention.

The president of Hostemur regrets that the unions resort to this measure that is very harmful and insists that you can’t compare salaries here with those of the Balearic islands, for example, because a hotel room there costs a lot more than here, he says.

Management accuses the unions to press on with the strike “looking for his neglect of the table of the collective agreement”.

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