Palma.While the President of the Balearics, Jose Ramon Bauza, continues to be booed and jeered where-ever he goes in the Balearics, the trade unions are busy plotting the summer season from hell for his government and the Balearics as a whole.
Yesterday, shop stewards for the three main unions and the Independent Coach Drivers' Union said that it is not ruling out joining the hostelry sector and taking strike action on July 20.
The unions are also in the process of trying to reach new contracts with the coach companies for their employees but it appears that little progress is being made between the two sides, just like in the hostelry sector negotiations. Spokesperson for the CCOO general workers' commission, Pep Ginard, said yesterday that they intend to present their proposal to the coach companies on Tuesday and, if their demands are not met, or even partially agreed to, then industrial action will be taken and could well be called to coincide with the hostelry strike. Ginard said that some 3'000 coach drivers could be involved in the protest action and many of those are going to be called to a general meeting over the weekend or on Monday to discuss what action should be taken were the coach companies to reject their demands.
Ginard made it clear that they have been in talks with the coach companies for well over a year now and that the time for negotiating has come to an end. Coach drivers, whose wages were frozen in 2010, want an increase in their basic pay and overtime pay to be in line with inflation and they want this to be back dated to January 1, 2011 and binding for the six years. SEE PAGE 7
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