Faced with the call for a strike in the hospitality sector of the Community of Madrid, the employers state that their "absolute priority" is to close the collective agreement with the workers of the sector after eleven months of negotiations and that they will continue working "until a agreement".
This was expressed yesterday by the Madrid Hospitality association in a joint note with the entities Noche Madrid and AMER, in which it states that "important progress" has already been made in the salary aspect with an agreed increase of 15% in three years until 2025 for all workers in the Community of Madrid.
"We hope to extend this prior agreement to the rest of the issues that are on the table such as training, professional promotion of workers and hiring, in order to provide stability to companies and workers," the note says.
The businessmen add that their "commitment" involves "continuing to work together to achieve an agreement, redoubling efforts if necessary."
Last Saturday, the union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) announced the call for a strike in the Madrid hospitality industry on December 25 and 31, and January 1, 5 and 6, after the lack of agreement in the negotiation of the collective agreement of the sector and in the face of the position of the employers who, they say, have "enslaved" their workers.
CCOO proposes a salary increase of 15% in three years -7% for 2023, 4% for 2024 and 4% for 2025-, the regulation of the permanent discontinuous part-time contract, the improvement in promotion criteria and the adaptation of current labor regulations in the agreement.
And yesterday, also, the General Union of Workers (UGT) announced that if the attitude of Madrid's hoteliers to block a salary increase when sales and billing "have risen up to 25% more than the previous year" persists, the union is doomed "to conflict, protests and strikes."
"Our interest is the signing of a collective agreement that gives guarantees to a sector as punished as the Hospitality Industry, recovering the salary lost these years, proposing a total increase of 15 percent for 2023, 2024 and 2025 and establishing decent conditions of work," says UGT.
