Cetursa, the public company that manages the Sierra Nevada ski resort, and the representatives of the ski lift workers at the facility located in Monachil, in the metropolitan area of Granada, have met on Friday morning to try to reach an agreement to call off the strike scheduled for Saturday with a full-day stoppage.
According to sources from Cetursa to Europa Press, the parties, who met on Thursday convened by the company to analyze health and safety measures at work, which has emerged as «the main issue of the conflict,» have scheduled this new meeting to «try to reach an agreement that allows the strike to be called off.»
At Thursday’s meeting, the company, which is confident in reaching an agreement that would allow the strike to be called off for Saturday, has committed to reviewing «again, along with the health and safety labor policy — in which nearly 800,000 euros have been invested in the current season — the rest of the main demands raised by the workers’ representatives related to new categories, incentivized exits, or accident insurance, among others, and to deliver a document reflecting this.»
The unions CCOO, UGT, CSIF, and CGT announced that they have called for a full-day strike for ski lift workers this Saturday to fulfill demands such as the elimination of outsourcing or the establishment of a height bonus, marking the beginning of a strike that would affect more than 400 employees.
Union sources consulted by Europa Press in the employee committee, chaired by CCOO, have confirmed the meeting on Friday, which was prompted, they maintained, by the workers’ representatives’ request to the company’s management to address their demands «in writing,» beyond the issue of health and safety at work that has occupied the parties in their meeting on Thursday, which lasted for about three hours from noon.
Based on the document presented by Cetursa, and another one that the employee committee will bring, the labor side will urge to review «point by point until reaching an agreement» if possible, which would lead to the cancellation of the announced strike, these same union sources have specified.
Cetursa received a call for eight strike days on February 12, six of them on Saturdays for the entire day and two of them on Fridays, with four-hour stoppages, at a time that prevents the opening of the Granada ski resort.
Following the meeting held in Sierra Nevada with the strike committee on February 24, Cetursa responded in writing to the various issues raised by the committee.
It did so, as stated, «with the intention of continuing in the negotiation process, understanding that the positions of both parties are much closer than perhaps perceived, and that good agreements can be reached before having to cancel any conversation and progress due to the execution of the strike call,» as stated in the documentation, accessed by Europa Press.