Transportes Interurbanos de Tenerife (Titsa), a Cabildo company, considers the indefinite strike called by the company’s workers as of September 7 as a “disproportionate” measure. It makes it clear through a statement in response to the notice presented by Intersindical Canaria (IC), the majority force in the Works Council, with 43 of the 71 delegates. The management “is committed to dialogue as the way to solve the conflict in order not to harm citizens.”
The arguments raised by Intersindical Canaria as justifications for the strike call are, according to the business vision, aspects to be negotiated “that must be dealt with in the different internal commissions which are held periodically and which always have the corresponding trade union representation».
IC opts for “non-collaboration” until receiving a response and does not attend the last meetings
For this reason, the management of Titsa maintains its “absolute predisposition” that union claims be resolved or clarified in the corresponding field of competence. However, the company is confident of “a satisfactory solution to the situation” and “regrets the inconvenience or uncertainty that it may cause among bus users if it becomes a reality.”
keep the job
Intersindical Canaria is the union with majority representation in the public transport company. During this month, he activates the “non-collaboration” protocol with the management while waiting for a response to his requests. Their delegates, therefore, do not attend the call for meetings of the business side. This causes a lack of quorum that prevents the option of reaching any agreement.
IC values in its advance notice that the collective agreement is “broken”. It also raises the “infringement of the powers of the services commission” and the “execution agreement of the sentence on the workshop guards”. It also denounces “unjustified delays” in salary updates, “anti-union actions” and “discriminatory treatment” in the imposition of various sanctions.
In order to avoid a strike, the conditions are, in addition to complying with the agreement “in its entirety”, that the company accept the quantification and distribution of the wage bill so that it can be “immediately paid” and the dismissed personnel be reinstated “without prejudice of a sanction other than contractual termination.
Titsa also assures that “despite the complexity of recent years”, with the pandemic and other added factors very present, it has maintained “a line of work committed to the double track of guaranteeing jobs and in parallel the best transport service public”
