10 The tourist season begins and with it comes May Day, a day of protest and struggle for the working class. A time when our islands begin to be full of tourists; there is a lot of work, but, even so, we must raise our voices to say that we have an economic model that suffocates and expels us. There are many problems that we workers have, including job insecurity, temporality, work overload that makes us sick, lack of economic resources and, our greatest evil, a housing market that is unattainable for those of us who live on wages from work. All this, in an environment in which year after year we break tourism records, we have more spending per visitor and business margins are rising. We all know it, this model is finished, it must be transformed to be sustainable. The question is: how? While our rulers get tangled up, changing their discourse according to the wind to avoid changing anything, at the union we have designed a roadmap to follow in order to move towards sustainable Balearic Islands. It is a proposal for action for a change of economic model that leads us towards Balearic Islands that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. This transition must be orderly and fair, and for this reason, it is important to anticipate.Faced with this complexity, it is necessary for the proposal to be defined by a few simple, high-impact actions that foster the start of change quickly. In parallel, the labor area must be worked on, placing special emphasis on training and qualification as the backbone of the new economic model. Thus, if we want to transition towards a model with more added value, focused on value and not on volume, we must start by reducing the number of visitors. For this reason, we propose an increase and review of the tourist tax. This should be dissuasive, flexible, and temporary. It is also important to focus on tourist places and postpone the granting of new ones in any form in order to eliminate obsolete supply, pending an objective analysis of the Islands' carrying capacity, taking into account the floating population. Regarding environmental management, it is necessary to monitor the circularity plans of tourist establishments, increase the percentage of commitment to local product consumption, and extend this obligation to other non-food products. All of this must be accompanied by the promotion of public transport, with increased frequencies and its gratuity, and by a fleet renewal plan with zero emissions.But all these changes are impossible without the support of the working people, with the improvement of the quality of employment and the promotion and recognition of training adequate to the new challenges of the world of work. The changes will happen and we cannot allow them to be made outside of the working people. We must demand participation, recognition, and shared decisions. Capital cannot make decisions outside of the working class. For this reason and because together we are strong, we must take to the streets this May Day.

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