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Hotel workers strike over lack of management effort to resolve issues

HOTELRECEPTIONGALEWorkers 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.

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-5 #4 AL 2019-06-24 10:14
Quoting Jim Brown:
These tourism venue staff mistreatment stories do emphasise that so many of todays tourism business owners are the sons and daughters of Salazar success types.

Suggesting that these hotels are owned by Portuguese business men is somehow ignorant of you, making your entire comment just nonsense.
Try and get your facts right next time you want to criticize the Portuguese or perhaps that doesn't matter to you.
-2 #3 Jim Brown 2019-06-23 18:40
These tourism venue staff mistreatment stories do emphasise that so many of todays tourism business owners are the sons and daughters of Salazar success types. As in every other business sector; not owning hotels through ability, just through Daddy's connections from the old days. Relying on senior management for running these businesses but then handicapping their attempts to negotiate with the workers as surplus profts need to be skimmed off by the owners.
+8 #2 Steven 2019-06-21 19:00
Are these some of the same hoteliers that were complaining last summer how they can't retain or find sufficient staff? Maybe they should consider treating their staff as a valued asset if they want to keep them.
+7 #1 Chip 2019-06-21 14:50
When I read that workers were being disciplined because they wanted a meeting with HR I was full of sympathy.
Then I read that they also "demand working hours changes, a wage increase and a rise in holiday pay and overtime rates" and was not surprised the employer has stuck up two fingers.
The union seems to have as much idea about negotiation as Cameron and May.

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