Workers at the Hotel Bahía Tropical in Almuñécar demonstrated on the 10th against an “anti-union” attitude from the Hotel and abusing work-condition accords.

The workers and their union, UGT, claim that the hotel management are not recognising the union reps as the legal representatives of the workers.

Furthermore, according to the UGT, hotel management has broken several points in the work-condition accords in order to force workers to accept inferior working conditions under the threat of outsourcing their jobs to multiservice companies.

Union head for the provincial hostelry sector, Miguel Ángel Prieto, says that the hotel management refuses to allow the union representative into meetings between the hotel and the workers, even though the latter request the presence of their union rep.

He further claims that the hotel continuously breaks the sector-wide accords on a provincial level by forcing staff to accept one day off a week, and not even compensating the loss of a day off in their salaries.

He concludes that this is just one more example of how management in general is taking advantage of the crisis in order to make more cuts to workers rights.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)