ELA, LSB-USO, LAB, UGT, CCOO and ESK have announced that, if after the 15-day strike from January 8 to 21 “there is no solution or movement whatsoever”, “this action will be taken and put on the table” . the decision to strike indefinitely in February.”
ELA, LSB-USO, LAB, UGT, CCOO And ESK in the outsourced medical transport of Euskadi have announced that if after the fifteen days of strike from January 8 to 21 “there is no solution or movement” on the part of the award-winning companies nor of Basque government“the decision to go to a indefinite strike in February“.
The announcement was made this Friday during the demonstration that the employees of this service held before the delegation of the Ministry of Health in Bilbao before later demonstrating at the headquarters of the Basque government.
In statements to the media, the representative of ELA, the majority union in the sector, Rubén Espina, confirmed the forecast agreed among the unions to strike indefinitely, “more than anything because we still have nothing on the table” . that makes us reconsider that decision.
His most important justification in this labor dispute the approval of subcontracted personnel which provides this service, with regard to, among other things, working hours, salaries, permits, leave and days of free disposal, under the conditions of the staff hired directly by Osakidetza and who perform “the same functions”.
Espina has assured that “it is not acceptable” that a public service “of this size” continues to be outsourced and that “there are companies that do business with public money” while “users and employees suffer the consequences of the mismanagement and lack of resources. “
The unions have the follow up of this new strike day that started last Monday 99% of staff are not required to provide the minimum services setwhich amounts to 100% in emergencies.
At the beginning of the protest, the ELA representative confirmed that the union has not yet received “any communication”, neither from the employers to facilitate negotiations nor from the response of the Basque government to their request for the outsourcing of this service to undo.
In this sense, Espina once again pointed out the responsibility of the Basque government in this situation, because it “does not assume its responsibility at all and we continue to say that the conflict will develop further and after three months of repeated strikes, this month we went on strike again for fourteen days.
The staff has been blocking the agreement for two years and, as they have emphasized, the loss of purchasing power is now around 20%.
Source: EITB
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