In the face of this situation, as stated in the Labor Inspectorate's act of violations, the hotel chains, in a coordinated way, hired the company Cor Outsourcing to represent all the people on strike. This substitution was made at a cost higher than the wages that the workers on strike demand, and in the case of the NH the people were moved from Pamplona, staying at the hotel itself, in order to cancel the impact of the strike.

As the Labour Inspectorate concludes, on the basis of the judgments of the Constitutional Court, there cannot be an area that renders fundamental rights meaningless. That is why, despite the legal proceedings initiated by the ELA trade union, which defends the strikers (accuses the four companies of violation of fundamental rights), I consider it essential to denounce the seriousness of what has happened. Moreover, Eusko

On November 22, the Basque Government’s Directorate of Labor convened all parties at a meeting in which Cor Outsourcing refused to explain it, evidencing the company’s bad faith.

Although fundamentally it is a breach of the sectoral collective agreement, which generates precarious working conditions in a feminized profession such as cleaning hotel rooms. To this is added the denial of the legal means of pressure from the workers, the strike, replacing the cleaners.

That is why, at the recent Campus Board in Bizkaia and at the Governing Council of the UPV/EHU, I have called for no more rooms to be reserved in these hotels during the conflict, both for the worst service the strike generates and for the values defended by the UPV/EHU, such as the parity between men and women, decent working conditions, and in all fundamental rights. I also propose to include in the specifications of the following contracts the ban on hiring companies sanctioned for violation of fundamental rights, as required by corporate social responsibility.

* Ángel Elías Ortega is a Doctor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Labor Relations and Social Assistance of the UPV/EHU