Brit tourists face holiday chaos with strikes confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on hotspot islands
Walkouts have already crippled the holiday destinations this month
HOLS CHAOS Brit tourists face holiday chaos with strikes confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on hotspot islands
STRIKES have been confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on a number of hotspot islands.
Hotels, restaurants and night-life venues in the Balearic Islands will be hit by the walkouts, sparking chaos for thousands of British tourists.
Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca which are usually bursting with holidaymakers will be affected by the strikes.
The alert was raised on June 26 after unions walked out of meeting where issues of pay and working conditions were being discussed.
The UGT union rejected the 11 per cent wage increase offer, calling it insufficient.
The strikes are expected to persist across the whole of the month with 18, 19, 25, 31 July confirmed as protest days.
José García Relucio, General Secretary of the Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption of UGT, said the talks "could not have gone worse" and condemned employers' inflexibility around pay.
Meanwhile, Javier Vich, President of the Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca, blamed unions for failing to meet a compromise.
He added that employers were making all the "necessary efforts" to "reach a fair" agreement with workers.
Unions are demanding a 16 per cent increase in pay for workers but hospitality bosses have insisted 11 per cent is already big enough.
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