Workers at three of the Algarve’s hotels are going on strike over the treatment of fellow workers for whom they demand the withdrawal of discliplinary procedures.
Staff at Golfe da Quinta do Lago will trike on June 28 and workers at Praia da Oura and Oura Praia Hotel in Albufeira, will strike on June 29.
The Trade Union rep says that the reason for the strike is related to the demand "to stop the repression and the withdrawal of disciplinary processes that the administration decided to instate the workers because they refused to work on 10 May, because they wanted to talk to the company's human resources, a request that had already been delayed for months and to which the company has not yet given a positive response."
In a communiqué, the same union points out that workers also demand working hours changes, a wage increase and a rise in holiday pay and overtime rates.
Trade unionists say they have come forward with proposals and solutions to solve workers' problems, "in which the administration continues to refuse salary increases in 2019, has not solved the lack of working conditions and has maintained a work overload due to an insufficient number of workers.”
The Hotelaria do Algarve Union condemns the hotel managements’ continued lack of response to workers' claims.
