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Accor hotel housekeepers against outsourcing in Madrid

18-09-2013

Members of the IUF-affiliated Comisiones Obreras organized a strike on September 16 in front of Hotel Mercure Plaza de España to protest mass layoffs in the housekeeping department.

Since the jobs will remain - rooms need to be cleaned! - workers fear they will be offered to be rehired under inferior conditions. The union believes this will also affect the quality of service.

Read the full article in Spanish here [1].

The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in agriculture and plantations; the preparation and manufacture of food and beverages; hotels, restaurants and catering services; all stages of tobacco processing. The IUF is composed of 394 affiliated organizations in 126 countries representing a combined membership of around 2,6 million.

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Source URL: http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/2768

Links:
[1] http://www.fecoht.ccoo.es/fecoht/Inicio:517318--CCOO_se_opone_a_la_externalizacion_del_departamento_de_camareras_de_pisos_del_Hotel_Mercure_Plaza_de_Espana