The Santa Rita Home Business Committeemade up of representatives of Workers Commissions, UGT and Canarian Interunionhas denounced a new delay in the collection of salaries of the 423 workers who attend the largest nursing home in the Canary Islands. alexis rodriguezfrom the Federation of Health and Social Services of Workers’ Commissions in Tenerife, detailed this Thursday, July 7, that the workers want to make clear their discomfort about “the second delay that occurs in payroll in the last four months”.
Although they had initially announced a concentration for this Friday, July 8, next to the gates of the Fundación Canaria Home Santa Ritain Cross port, that protest was called off hours later “because it was not notified sufficiently in advance,” according to Rodríguez. In his opinion, “once again the management of this foundation does not comply with its obligation to pay the payroll before the 5th of the month. Plus, nor does it give any guarantee that the extraordinary payment for July will be paid. Thus they demonstrate again their inability to meet the basic commitments of an employer.
The person in charge of CCOO recalled that the managing director Thomas Villar was responsible in April for the delay in collecting the workers’ payroll for 15 days, “despite the fact that the foundation had financial solvency” and insisted that for months “he has been an interlocutor with whom it is impossible to get anything clear ». As happened before last Easter, from CCOO Villar is accused of “delaying payments despite the fact that the foundation has resources” and they reject the argument that the origin of the problem is in the delays in the payments of the squares arranged by the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (IASS): «The workers are paid by the Foundation, not by the IASS, so since April they have had time to arbitrate the necessary measures so that these delays do not occur again».
alexis rodriguez He warns that the payments have started on July 7, “but there are no guarantees that the staff will receive the double pay that corresponds to them now.” In his opinion, Santa Rita’s address “It once again demonstrates a total incapacity for management.” On May 6, the works council demanded, without success, the immediate resignation of the managing director of the largest residence for the elderly in the Canary Islands, Thomas Villarwhom they consider “solely responsible for the problems suffered by this residence and the main obstacle to their resolution.”
The unions understand that the Santa Rita Home and its workers cannot remain on the sidelines of the change in the care model advocated by the Council of Tenerife and the Canary Islands Governmentfor which they consider essential the entry of public administrations and representatives of the workforce in the board of trustees that makes decisions in this foundation and in the nursing home.
In his appearance in May, the president of the Santa Rita Company CommitteeJesús Ángel Suárez, defended the “absolute professionalism and dedication” of domestic workers, despite all the controversies that have shaken this institution since 2020.
