Two-day strike at the Alhambra in Spain for Holy Week

The HUELGA action at the most famous monument in southern Spain, the Alhambra in Granada, threatens to have a domino effect on tourists during Holy Week.

The Works Committee of the Alhambra and the Generalife has called a two-day strike at the Nasrid monument during Holy Week in protest at the lack of personnel and the outsourcing of services.

The strike, called for April 5 and 6, Holy Wednesday and Holy Thursday, prior to Good Friday, is endorsed by the monument’s staff, who in a general assembly last December supported the committee for any action in defense of their labor rights .

As in previous rallies, the committee will denounce the “considerable” lack of personnel and the outsourcing of the monument’s surveillance and maintenance services, which, according to the unions, seriously endangers the preservation and conservation of the monument.

The works council has estimated that 200 new positions are needed to avoid privatization and to be able to offer a quality service to visitors.

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