Balearic Association

On February 23 starts the calendar of negotiations to renew the agreement of hospitality of Balearic existing since 2008, and from some tourist patron of the Islands since the first red lines have been marked: wage increases of the last Convention have gone down in history (more inter-annual CPI 0.5%) because some employers have struggled really by the high increase of the CPI in recent yearsthey have declared 02B sources of the Business Federation of hoteliers of Majorca. You have to remember that the framework agreement between CEOE and unions set salary maximum rates that are 0.5% for 2012, 0.6% for 2013 and between 0.6% and 1.5% for 2014, with clauses of update for each of the exercises. Even so, business organizations do not want negotiations to alter the next tourist season in this destination, and pose that workers are aware of the current situation. In this sense, the recent agreements of the labor reform will mark the negotiation. The Association of restoration of Majorca, Federation of companies of restoration Pimem, Salas’s entrepreneurs Association of festivals, night clubs and similar, and the Federation Empresarial Hotelera de Mallorca already maintained a previous meeting this month 9 to address quality for the sector plans, but also to agree on positions in the face of the rounds of talks. Hospitality hospitality workers collective agreement Convention is the Convention’s reference by number of workers and undertakings concerned in Balearic Islands: more than 60,000 workers in hospitality and close to 100,000, adding sectors restoration PIMEM and CAEB and the Festival halls Association. The UGT and CCOO unions will pose a joint vindicating platform, producing at the moment. The Secretary general of the Federation of Commerce, catering and tourism of CCOO in Baleares, angeles Sanchez, has declared to this medium that his intention in the next negotiation is not renounce consolidated rights and maintain the purchasing power of workers.