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Green Flag
Credit: Palma City Council
MORE than 400 hotel establishments in Pal ma are participating in the fourth edition of the #MovimientoBan derasVerdes, an initia tive launched by Ecovidrio, the non profit entity in charge of managing the recy cling of glass waste in Spain. The campaign seeks to reward the commit ment of municipalities and hotels towards re cycling during the summer season. Pal ma is in competition with 28 other towns of the Balearic Islands. The area manager of Ecovidrio for the Balearics, Roberto Fuentes said that “Pal ma is among the five provincial capitals that recycle the most, with an average of 26 kilos per inhabitant per year. The objective of this edition is to ob tain the green flag, an achievement that just two of the municipali ties of the Balearic Is lands will receive.” The Green Flag Movement encour ages businesses to re cycle.
Councillor for the Environment, Llorenc Bauza.
FEARS OF A STRIKE
27 July - 2 Aug 2023
MALLORCA • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
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Issue No. 1986
MAJOR SETBACK: Hotels could have no fresh linen.
HOLIDAYMAKERS travelling to Mallorca for their holidays next week might be better off packing towels and sheets be fore they leave, as launderette workers have threatened to strike from Tuesday, August 1. The strike is set to commence at 7am, unless a last minute agreement can be reached. The union that represents launderette workers on the Balearic Islands has suggested that they could walk out indef initely from the start of next month in a dispute over pay and conditions. So far, launderette workers have been offered an increase
of around €20 a month, in creasing their wages to around €1,103 per month. A large number of small and medium hotels and larger chains have outsourced this service, and at the height of the season it will be a setback for the many tourists who are due to arrive. Hotels will be the business es that are hardest hit, be cause the CCOO Habitat Balearas union said laun derettes will have to provide priority service to places such as hospitals, where this ser vice is essential. If the industrial action goes
ahead, it could be disastrous for tourism. There are around 1,500 workers involved in the dis pute. The workers have de manded two consecutive days off, night duty remuneration and a 30minute break during working hours. The increase offered by launderette owners has been rejected by the workers, con sidering it insufficient. “Their conditions are quite precarious and the increases put on the table are not up to the negotia tions,” explained José Luis Gar cia, general secretary of the CCOO in the Balearic Islands.
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Tragic passing COCO, the beloved search dog of the Guardia Civil in Mallorca, passed away last week at the age of five due to a spinal cord infection. The daschund arrived in Mal lorca when he was only two months old. At four months, his training began, and he was taught to search for mon ey. One of the first searches by Coco was during an opera tion in Algaida. The dachshund and his handler searched the headquarters of a real estate agency in Cala Major during an operation, and immediately pointed to where €20,000 had been hidden. He recovered over €400,000 during his short career. The Guardia Civil are mourning the loss of their loyal little friend.