SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 21. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Csif Canarias has warned this Monday that the call for a strike by the workers of the public company Management of Services for Health and Safety in the Canary Islands, SA that manages the Coordinating Center for Emergencies and Security of the Government of the Canary Islands, CECOES 1- 1-2, the Canary Emergency Service, SUC and Non-Urgent Health Transport, if the Executive fails to comply with the judicial agreement of last November before the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) by which it undertakes to raise salaries at 5% from January 1, 2022.
The indefinite strike will foreseeably begin before Easter, with the commitment of practically all workers and union organizations until the Government of the Canary Islands “assumes the conflict and maintains a firm commitment to comply with a judicial agreement reached before the Superior Court of Justice de Canarias”, says the union in a note, and in compliance with Law 7/2018 of December 28.
From CSIF Canarias, the contempt they receive from the Government of the Canary Islands with a “precarious situation of the essential emergency services provided by these professionals in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the risk that this may entail for people”.
Thus, the staff of professionals asks citizens for “apologies in advance” for the possible precariousness of the service.
Lorenzo Galindo, president of the works council and delegate of CSIF Canarias, states that the company and the service that it has been providing since 1998 has become “something vital” for the health and safety of Canarians and visitors and “behind that number there is a large quantity and quality of professionals such as resource managers, nurse coordinators, multisectoral coordinators, medical coordinators, operational managers, technicians, administrative staff, doctors and nurses in helicopters and sanitary aircraft who respond by attending, managing and coordinating all calls who enter by 1-1-2”.
However, he points out that for “some time now, it has been becoming, due to disastrous political management by partisan interests – NC and PSOE are the ones who make up our Board of Directors – into a company of no value to society , with the frustration of all the professionals who carry out the management, coordination and resolution of calls to the 1-1-2 emergency telephone number and with the consequences that this will inevitably entail”.
Along these lines, he states that the workers are not only “on a day-to-day basis” but also in “major emergencies” such as forest fires, landslides or adverse meteorological phenomena such as torrential rains or winds, to which is recently added the volcanological emergency of The Palm.
“We ask Canarian society for support and understanding, we just want a right that was taken from us in 2012 and that measure was declared unconstitutional in 2014, now, in December 2021, after years of work we have arrived to an agreement with our company to recover it before the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, but it seems that, due to personal or partisan problems between NC and PSOE, they do not give the go-ahead to comply with that agreement”, he comments.
For this reason, he also publicly asks the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, to mediate in resolving the conflict given that it seems that the councilors Julio Pérez (PSOE) and Román Rodríguez (NC) “have not done what they should” to comply with the rights of professionals.
