Demonstration of the workers of the Otis elevator company against the mass layoffs. In June 2020, and still in a state of Alarm and just one day after the annual Shareholders' Meeting, the company Zardoya Otis, has started a massive process of dismissals, even some of these colleagues classified as risk people who have been in quarantine or on leave due to anxiety due to the effects of COVID-19. Two of them have occurred in Logroño in the maintenance staff, being reduced from 7 to 5 workers, for the maintenance, breakdowns and repair of about 1000 lifts. As of today they continue to lay off
Demonstration of the workers of the Otis elevator company against the mass layoffs. In June 2020, and still in a state of Alarm and just one day after the annual Shareholders' Meeting, the company Zardoya Otis, has started a massive process of dismissals, even some of these colleagues classified as risk people who have been in quarantine or on leave due to anxiety due to the effects of COVID-19. Two of them have occurred in Logroño in the maintenance staff, being reduced from 7 to 5 workers, for the maintenance, breakdowns and repair of about 1000 lifts. As of today they continue to lay off workers, as they themselves proclaim in their multiple statements, 'the most important assets of the Company', and those who have recently described us as 'heroes' by being 'at the foot of the canyon' throughout the pandemic giving service 24 hours a day to users and customers. The workers point out that "This company, Zardoya Otis SA, like so many others, could have joined the companies that, in a situation of extreme crisis both in terms of health and economics, have chosen to maintain employment as a priority measure, but his decision has been absolutely the opposite: to destroy employment prioritizing his economic interest over any other reason, which is even more serious in the current situation. In a scenario of tremendous uncertainty about what may happen in this In the country, 14 families are doomed to fear and insecurity. Work is the economic, emotional and social sustenance. This company acts with total indifference to what happens to these workers and their families: this is the commitment of Zardoya Otis SA with this society and with this country. " They also indicate that "The Otis Group, the group to which Zardoya Otis SA belongs, is established in each and every one of the provinces of the Spanish state, with a portfolio of more than 290,000 lifting devices, with profits after taxes of 140, € 6M during 2019 and 2021. This Group is made up of, among others,
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