The workers of the Santa Rita Homein Puerto de la Cruz, will decide on Monday if they finally start a strike to protest the uncertainty that they have been experiencing for a year regarding the late payment of their wages.
Despite the fact that this month they received the payroll corresponding to March in due time and form, they have no guarantee that the situation will change and they fear that the delay will be repeated next month, with the damage it entails for the 450 employees of the center.
In the last meeting held between a representation of the Board of Directors of the Hogar Santa Rita Foundation and the works council to address the issue of wages, those responsible for the center “refused to provide the documentation of the policy that had been negotiated with the banking entities to guarantee the payment of salaries”, Alexis Rodríguez, the head of the socio-sanitary and health sector of Comisiones Obreras, assures this newspaper. “They took refuge in the data protection law and told us that they could not give us that information, despite the fact that the works council has the right to know it in order to negotiate,” adds the union representative.
For all these reasons, and taking into account the instability that it has endured for a year, the staff will meet again on Monday between 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the gates of the center, located at number 27 Carretera las Dehesas.
The reason for the call is to protest the management of the management, to continue with the demands of the staff regarding the guarantee of payment of wages in a timely manner, and to denounce the “manifest incapacity” of the manager, Tomás Villar, both in the management of the Foundation as well as in dialogue with the workers’ representatives, who are reproached for “attitudes that obstruct any possibility of negotiation by keeping the information and justification of the problems that this foundation is going through sequestered.”
The works council emphasizes that “this conflict goes further, because in the center there are 510 residents who must be given adequate care.” Therefore, “consequently with our professional commitment, we denounce the passivity of the Canarian Government and the Cabildo de Tenerife to guarantee its proper functioning.”
