The City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife defends that article 100.2 of the Public Sector Contracts Law requires disaggregating by gender and professional category the salary costs estimated in the bidding budgets. The municipal corporation, governed by the Canarian Coalition (CC) in alliance with the Popular Party (PP) and the refugee councilor Evelyn Alonso, formerly of Ciudadanos, has thus responded to the statement that the United We Can group released last Saturday, a note in the which denounced that the public competition for the contracting of the surveillance and security service of the municipal dependencies differentiated between men and women when establishing the categories and described as “shameful and unheard of” that in the administrative clauses “some different costs for male and female staff”.
“In contracts in which the cost of the salaries of the people employed for its execution form part of the total price of the contract, the base budget of the tender will indicate in a disaggregated manner and with disaggregation by gender and professional category the salary costs estimated from the reference labor agreement”, collects in its final part the aforementioned article of the law that governs public contracting.
Official sources from the City Council have also specified that in this tender there is a subrogation of workers from the previous contractor (SH), so the difference in salary costs between male and female security guards is due to the fact that there were more men than women in that template, but there is no salary distinction between them.
The tender corresponds to the Presidency area. The councilor for this area, Alfonso Cabello CC-PNC, does not understand “how it is possible that a councilor and trade unionist like Dolores Espino from United We Can ignore” the content of article 100.2 of the Public Sector Contract Law and try to “follow putting sticks in the wheels in the determined will of the government team to end the labor uncertainties of the workers in this sector in the City Council just to obtain an alleged political gain.
“Intentionally. the councilor of United We Can tries to confuse, with the simple pretense of sticking her head out” and “in a crude way she intends to confuse by stating that 1,524,961 euros are planned for the male security guard, while for the female 622,871 euros, without explaining , or what is worse, hiding that these amounts respond to the subrogation that the company that is the concessionaire of the service will have to face, in which it is detailed, as required by the Law of Contracts, the number of men and women who they will benefit from such labor measure”, he maintains.
The councilor for the Presidency encourages United We Can and its councilor Dolores Espinosa to “side with the workers, who are looking for job stability, and stop trying to hinder and be untruthful, or tell half-truths, as it has already done on some other occasion and on this same issue” and ends up arguing that “from the first moment of the non-payment of the previous company to these employees, this government team mediated to ensure that the workers could collect their payroll and positioned themselves by his side, even if the conflict was with the company”.
“Ultimately,” Alfonso Cabello adds, “Unidas Podemos is from the school of when worse, betterthat is why he plays with confusion and confusion, and not with rigor and well-founded, well-done and constructed work” and for this reason he maintains that “in this case he punctures the bone because this is a procedure that has gone very hand in hand of the employees and that has been carried out in record time and led by the mayor”.
