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Accor hotel housekeepers against outsourcing in Madrid
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.