Representatives of CCOO and UGT of the Canary Islands They have locked themselves up this Friday in the offices of the Provincial Post Office of Tenerife to protest the reconversion and the “scrapping” of the public postal service.
This confinement is part of the mobilizations that the majority unions are carrying out under the slogan ‘Let’s save Post Office’ and that on the most immediate horizon is the call for a general strike on June 1, 2 and 3.
CCOO and UGT They denounce in a note “the policy of abandonment” of the public postal service and the Post Office, which has caused the “collapse” of the workload and an “economically unsustainable situation” with losses of almost 600 million euros since 2019, if add the 100 million negative for the 2021 financial year and a structural deficit that places it on the verge of technical bankruptcy.
“This policy of intentional scrapping of the largest public company in this country by its president has had as a direct consequence the implementation of a garbage employment model, with high rates of job insecurity in the staff of the largest public company in the country, with more than 10,000 part-time positions, which represents more than 20% of the total workforce”, they comment.
Tenerife Post Office
For example, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife the part-time employment rate is 22%, very similar to the rest of the State.
The deterioration of the public postal service is “increasingly evident” in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife as a result of the policy of dismantling the public postal service and the Post Office, the collapse of its activity, and the precariousness of employment and working conditions, denounce both unions.
In his opinion, the president of Correos and the Government “have shown very little interest in social dialogue, consensus and the participation of representatives of Correos workers, ignoring the union majority that represents 76% of the workforce. template, which requires a real and effective negotiation on the public postal model, its financing and viability, causing the unilateral breakdown of social dialogue and the imposition of labor measures that have increased conflict and the judicialization of labor relations in Correos”.
Both organizations demand from the central Executive a rethinking of the future of the postal operator from a quality public service model for the country’s citizens, “contrary to the roadmap for the dismantling of the public operator followed for three years by the president, Juan Manuel Serrano.
