ince 2024, workers at CNT Barcelona have been fighting for better working conditions at NH Hotels, including fair wages, a cash-shortage allowance, and free parking. Management responded with intimidation and the dismissal of active union members. This repression did not go unanswered.
In November 2025, FAU Berlin showed solidarity with the workers in its sister union by staging a rally in front of the NH Hotel on Friedrichstraße, alongside solidarity actions with FAU Cologne, FAU Bonn, and FAU Dresden; across Spain, in Madrid, Salamanca, Valladolid, Gijón, the Basque Country, Pamplona; and even internationally, in Córdoba, Argentina.
On 11 May 2026, the labour court finally deemed the dismissals null and void, condemning NH Hotel’s for violating the fundamental right to freedom of association. The victory signals to the company that workers united can never be defeated.
But the battle is not won in the courts but on the picket line. Motivated by the court’s decision, the workers will continue to rally, leaflet, and other actions against the company, to fight for their outstanding demands. FAU Berlin continues to stand in solidarity with our comrades at CNT – today and always. An attack on one is an attack on all.
Press release: New Victory Against NH Hotels: Nullity of the Dismissals
Confederació Nacional del Treball
Sindicat d’Oficis Varis de Barcelona
Pl. Duc de Medinaceli, 6, Entr. 1ª 08002 BARCELONA
Tel/Fax: 93 317 05 47 e-mail: sov@barcelona.cnt.esThis past March 25, the trial regarding the dismissals of the two workers from our section at NH Hoteles took place. On the day of the hearing, more than 20 union colleagues gathered at the doors of the court. The commotion caused made the context of the union struggle clear from the very beginning, and the judge himself understood it that way.
Before the proceedings began, the judge encouraged the company to reinstate the dismissed workers, admitting that he did not find their arguments at all convincing.
The company, however, stood its ground and continued to offer money in exchange for the dismissed workers waiving their right to reinstatement — something they had repeatedly done in numerous phone calls to the workers’ lawyer. The lawyer even threatened to file a complaint with the Bar Association if they kept insisting.
On May 11, we finally received the ruling: it declares the dismissals null and void and condemns the company for violating the workers’ fundamental right to freedom of association. The decision specifies that the company set a trap for them and makes clear NH’s animosity toward our section. This news is an immense source of motivation and strengthens the struggle we have been waging for two years.
Within the union section, we decided to continue the conflict regardless of the ruling, because the dismissals were not the origin of the conflict, nor would it end with the verdict. That is why, in the weeks following the trial, we have continued with pickets, leafleting, and other actions against the company. Now, even more so, we will carry on until we achieve all outstanding demands.
We want to thank once again the displays of support and the efforts of the unions that have carried out actions in multiple hotels of this multinational, teaching it a lesson it will not forget.
We hope to keep announcing good news in the coming weeks.