Overview

• UGT and Sindicalistas de Base have given employers 15 days to approve a 6.5% pay rise retroactive to January 2025 or face coordinated strikes from July.
• Sindicalistas de Base insists on an unconditional wage boost before resuming talks, while CCOO backs a smaller 5% increase in ongoing negotiations with Ashotel and AERO.
• Thousands of hospitality and restaurant staff—including cleaners, kitchen and maintenance crews—could walk out during peak season, threatening disruption for UK tourists who make up over 40% of arrivals.
• Unions cite harsh working conditions such as split shifts, psychosocial risks and unpaid off-duty cleaning work as driving their demands for better pay and protections.
• The Canary Islands Government has unveiled plans to rewrite its 30-year-old tourism laws in a bid to address labor grievances and the broader impacts of mass tourism.