The workers’ assembly of the ski lifts service at Sierra Nevada ski resort, in Monachil, in the metropolitan area of Granada, has decided this Thursday to suspend the labor strikes — initially until the end of April, the next one this Saturday, March 8, on a full-time basis — awaiting the Junta de Andalucía and Cetursa, the public company that manages the winter resort, to resume «as soon as possible» the conversations for the fulfillment of their requests.
This has been indicated by CCOO, the union that chairs the Cetursa Lifts company committee, which has detailed that the strike has been partially called off.
The workers have been informed at the CCOO headquarters in Granada by the strike committee of the different scenarios that have been open to date after, this past Wednesday, the Minister of Development, Territorial Articulation, and Housing, Rocío Díaz, urged the «formal and complete suspension of the strike calendar» to «then resume the conversations in an atmosphere of full trust» regarding the demands of the representatives of the workers of this service at the Andalusian ski resort.
In a response letter sent to the employee committee, which also includes the UGT, CSIF, and CGT unions, the Minister of Development, in her capacity as president of Cetursa, stated that she was «waiting» for the «show of good will» from the worker representatives to «call a meeting in Seville with the signatories of the 2024 agreement». She reiterated this stance on Thursday in the Andalusian Parliament.
Cetursa received a notice from the worker representatives on February 12 of eight days of strike, six of them on Saturdays for the entire day and two on Fridays with four-hour stoppages, all from the beginning of March to the end of April.
The public company indicated that the total strike last Saturday, March 1, resulted in the resort losing nearly 800,000 euros in revenue, with an impact on the entire station and the rest of the province of around «six or seven million euros».
Regarding the establishment of minimum services announced by the Junta this past Wednesday for the planned strike this Saturday, CCOO has informed Europa Press that the matter was in the hands of the legal services of the employee committee on Thursday morning.