Port Aventura Park has opened its doors this Saturday but it works at half a gas and with only four attractions in progress, as a consequence of the strike called by the workers. “He resort It plans to operate, although they can be affected throughout the day, ”he announced the company’s address, in a brief informative note that has hung on their website. CCOO and UGT unions encrypt 80 % the monitoring of the strike this Saturday and claim that the company is assigning employees that they are working tasks for those who have no degree, as would be the case of food handling. Attractions it has opened without the necessary “guarantees” for its users.
For its part, Port Aventura World has assured that it has operated during this Saturday “with trained and qualified personnel” and “with the same second security standards.” The unions explain that they have denounced the company to data protection for “violation of workers’ privacy” and before labor inspection for “antihuelga practices.” Likewise, they have announced a new protest mobilization for May 1 and 2, two days in which a powerful public assistance could be provided for the facilities given and the fact that on day 2 falls on Friday, opening the door to the possibility of making a long four -day festive bridge. The announcement comes after the park has faced uncertainty one of the most profitable weekends of the year, Holy Week
Hundreds of workers have protested this morning in front of one of the accesses of this amusement park, which according to company sources has opened its doors to the public with relative normality and has put into operation attractions such as Shambhala, Furius Baco, Dragon Khan or Street Mission, as well as restoration and store services.
The company chose to stop selling tickets and accept new reservations in its hotels once the strike has given the uncertainty that surrounded the day of this Saturday.
The labor conflict remains enquisted in Port Aventura, and the workers’ representatives denounce violation of daily and weekly breaks, the exposure of the workforce to serious psychosocial risks or the breach of the delivery deadlines of labor calendar.
The approximately 3,500 on May 1 and 2, after this is decided by an assembly of workers held this Saturday in the framework, precisely, of the strike that is being carried out. The strike will be summoned again by the union sections of UGT and CCOO, majority in the Company Committee by having more than 80 % of its representatives, as union sources have explained to Efe.
The strike was convened after a period of “unsuccessful negotiations” with the management and two mediations in the Department of Labor to “get a decent agreement,” the aforementioned trade union organizations reported last Tuesday.
