SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 7 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Transportes Interurbanos de Tenerife (Titsa), a Cabildo company, has expressed its agreement to address possible solutions to the announcement of mobilizations by the workers, after the first round of meetings held by the strike committee of the Santa Cruz urban service (lines 900 of the capital) and the address of the company.
The company has indicated in a note that the changes that have been made in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife service, requested by the City Council, are motivated by an increasingly growing demand for extension of night and early morning hours by the residents of different neighborhoods of the capital, such as La Salud, San Andrés, Añaza, La Gallega, Santa María de Mar, Ofra, among others.
The company has indicated that these new services have been in operation for several weeks and that new travelers are added every day. Titsa has added that the decisions made in this service improvement seek efficiency, improve customer service and, in relation to its staff, compliance with the collective agreement and Royal Decree 1561/1995, of September 21, on working days job specials.
Titsa has ensured that the drivers who perform night services on a regular basis enjoy the rest regime established by the agreement (7 days of work-7 days of rest) for night personnel. He adds that the hours that come into conflict are those in the afternoon, which start at 6:00 p.m., and that for the worker they can mean doing them approximately 9 days a year. As the company clarifies, in these cases the payment of the night supplement established in the collective agreement is contemplated.
From the direction of Titsa it is stressed that the purpose of the strike is to request the same conditions that the night services already have for these new services that begin at 6:00 p.m., which would mean 30 more days of rest a year. In this sense, the company affirms that this means breaching the collective agreement or requesting its modification, which may imply that the strike is illegal.
Given this, the company defends that its main objective is to redirect the negotiation to the margins of legality, both to reach an agreement and not to be forced to denounce the strike as illegal. Meanwhile, he points out, the members of the strike committee insist on requesting these advantages as their own rotation group on a 7-7 rest regime. From Titsa it is insisted that the spirit of the company is to agree on possible solutions that are sufficiently attractive for the personnel that perform this service.
