Overview

• The UGT union confirmed that 180,000 hotel, restaurant and nightlife employees in Majorca, Ibiza and Formentera will stage strikes on July 10, 18, 19, 25 and 31.
• Workers have reduced their demand to a 16% pay rise over three years but employers capped their offer at 11%, leading to the breakdown in talks.
• Industrial action will hit hotels, bars, restaurants and clubs across the Balearic Islands and could prompt service suspensions and staffing shortages.
• The walkouts follow a last-minute wage agreement in the Canary Islands that averted similar strike threats there earlier this month.
• Unions say the mobilisation reflects mounting local anger over overtourism’s impact on housing costs, infrastructure strain and cultural identity.