SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 7. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, affirmed this Tuesday, during the government control session held in the regional Parliament, that the regional Executive is complying and will comply with the deadlines of State Law 20/2021, of December 28 and on urgent measures to reduce temporary employment in public employment.
In response to a question from the Mixed Group, Torres stressed that, before the end of 2023, the bases and calls for all the competitions will be issued together with the city councils and councils, and that, as required by the EU and promoted by the central government with that law, in 2024 will end temporary situations, “which last for years, five years and, in many cases, decades” in different public administrations of the islands, collects a note from the Presidency.
The head of the regional executive considers it striking that some members of the opposition are very harsh with this government, which has been trying to solve this problem for three years, and at the same time is understanding with those who did not solve it for so long.
In addition, and although he stressed that any worker and union have the right to disagree with the decisions that are adopted, Torres said that the majority of the trade union centers are in tune with the Government of the Canary Islands and that the ideal is that the parties support this effort and be “consistent with the present, the future and the past”.
The president rejected in the same parliamentary session the demagoguery about the public services of blood donation and blood therapy, stressed that the Government is complying with the Constitution and maintained that all the resources that may be presented will be responded to.
He also insisted that the places to regularize some 33,000 jobs have already been agreed upon and approved through that legal process, with special prominence of the areas of Health, Education, Justice and Public Administrations.
The spokeswoman for the Mixed Group, Vidina Espino, has reproached President Torres for saying that a government that calls itself progressive and of the people is going to leave thousands of public employees on the streets.
During his speech at the plenary session, he has also demanded that he assume responsibility for his party in the Government of the Canary Islands and has reminded him that, for many years, it has been the PSOE who has led the Public Service.
Espino has lamented that once again, “they arrive late and badly and with the majority of the unions against” how a process has been carried out in which dialogue and transparency have been lacking.
“You are the Government of the last minute,” said the deputy, pointing out that they should wait for the day before the deadline to publish the public job offer for the stabilization of the Canarian administration staff who are in temporary abuse.
ESPINO WARNS THAT THERE WILL BE RESOURCES AND CHALLENGES
The spokeswoman has warned the president that, now, “resources, challenges and lawsuits in court will begin to fall on him” because every time, “they have more workers on strike and against their management.”
This is the case of the employees of the Canarian Institute of Hemotherapy and Hemodonation (ICHH), who continue to demonstrate at the gates of Parliament, collects a note from the Mixed Group.
“You will have passed by in your official car” –the deputy has reproached the president– “but know that they are fundamental workers” who work in the Canary Islands blood bank, which is essential for health in order to carry out the surgical operations.
During her question to the president, Vidina Espino insisted on the need for the Government to recognize these workers as public employees in this staff stabilization process, because they are. They are workers of a public body attached to the Ministry of Health that should be included in the Canary Islands Health Service.
“But you treat them as workers in a commercial company, as if it were a business,” he said.
“Is that really what they intend to do with the blood of the canaries? A business?” Asked the deputy, who pointed out that this is precisely what these workers are denouncing.
“Don’t throw balls out,” he told Torres, because what they expect “is a commitment to be recognized for what they are,” public employees, and “they also expect a commitment from you that they are not going to privatize no way the blood bank of the Canary Islands”.
