The works councils of the palms and Santa Cruz de Tenerife of Management for Health and Safety in Canary Islands (GSC), public company that manages the Cecoes 112 and the Canary Emergency Service (SUCC), are divided before the indefinite strike called as of today in the mercantile society. Following a meeting held yesterday with the executive committee and the company’s management, the eastern province committee, made up of the CCOO uniondecided to postpone the conflict while the one in the western province, dominated by CSIFdecided by majority not to postpone the strike, so it maintains the mobilizations.
The GSC address promised to find a solution within two months of returning 5% of the salaries that were cut to the payrolls of public mercantile companies in 2010. As a gesture of goodwill, the company has withdrawn a technical instruction on work shifts work that the union representatives had demanded to be annulled and for which they had filed a collective dispute.
The commitment of the Executive happens to pay 5% through the amendments that have been presented to the 2023 budgets or by direct agreement in government council. For this reason, they asked the works councils to give them a margin of time to specify the solution. The committees put the proposal to a vote and in Las Palmas it was unanimous to postpone the strike until January 31, while in Tenerife the majority rejected the requested postponement.
On the other hand, the union leaders have opened a channel of negotiation directly with the Management for more labor issues such as the expansion of the workforce, training, organizational problems and staff rosters and other issues that are part of the demands that motivated the labor dispute.
At this point, the CSIF union will decide today the measures to be taken for the mobilizations, where there are minimum services that guarantee the operation of 112 and the SUC.
