Post office employees on the island camped at the door of the headquarters in Plaza de España to oppose “the dismantling” and make it clear that the delay in service is due to “bad management.” Meanwhile, the public company denies that packages are accumulated or privatization is going to take place.
Some thirty Post Office employees on the Island stage a protest camp in front of the main headquarters of the public company in Plaza de España from Santa Cruz of Tenerife. They have set up their booths with permission to occupy public space, although the Local Police have already warned them not later than eleven o’clock last night. The mobilization is one more step towards the general strike of June 1, 2 and 3 against «dismantling, privatization and poor quality of service due to disastrous management». The company denies everything.
The encampment is organized to collect signatures of support and “raise public awareness.” Pedro Segura, from CCOO, explains it, united with UGT, the majority unions, in this mobilization. Under the slogan Let’s save the postal service, the measure aims to protest “for the dismantling of the public postal service.”
CCOO and UGT demand from the government “the halt of the dismantling and the opening of a true process of dialogue on the public postal model”. A strategic plan “that reverses the situation of technical bankruptcy as a result of the disastrous management of President Juan Manuel Serrano.
This situation will culminate with a great concentration, in which there will be a presence from Tenerife, on June 1 before the Congress of Deputies in Madrid. They insist that “we cannot pay complaints about poor service caused by disastrous management.” An example: «An order for baby clothes to the Peninsula in December still does not arrive almost six months later. Response; it is in transit. What transit? Does he come on horseback?». They value; “There are packages held at customs because of the Post Office, not the Tax Agency.” Another complaint is “the document that they have read to their colleagues and they have had them sign as a receipt to give their explanations. It seems to us a coercion against the strike, but they have achieved the opposite effect». They conclude with a reflection: «The manager in the Canary Islands, Pablo Iván Rodríguez, says that everything is going well in the Post Office but that is not what neither the citizens nor the workers perceive. He says that Correos is not being privatized, that Correos is not closing offices and that Correos maintains the quality of its service. Amazing”.
no accumulation
Correos assures in a statement that “there is no accumulation” of package shipments in the centers of the Canary Islands. It reiterates that the treatment and delivery units are “completely up to date” and that the shipments are distributed “normally”. They point out that on May 15 and 16, 17 containers have been received, they have been managed “totally normally” and more than 80,000 packages have been distributed.
On the other hand, they point out that “there is no privatization plan”, in addition to “not having stopped providing any service” and there is “no dismantling or weakening”. Finally, Correos stresses that “no layoffs are made” nor “jobs are destroyed”, but, on the contrary, it continues to work “for stable and quality employment”.
