SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The strike committee of SEMCA (Union of Medical Employees of the Canary Islands) reaffirms the call for December 2 as the first day of the indefinite strike due to the fact that there are still 51 jobs missing for the stabilization processes — Law 20/2021, of December 28, requires that all positions be offered– and for the “discriminatory treatment” of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) by applying “less favorable scales” than those approved by the Government of the Canary Islands to stabilize temporary public employees of the General Administration.
The union underlines in a statement that the Health Sector Roundtable (MSS) on November 24 signed an agreement so that the call for Health has the same characteristics as the General Administration, but in reality this is not the case given that the percentage of time worked is of 70% –by 80% in Administration) and the score difference between internal and external applicants is two to one –by three to one in Administration– while in other merits the SCS adds 30% for the 20% Administration.
In addition, for the opposition contest, the Confluencia has been claiming a premium of equal power for the corresponding items of the contest phase and also defends that the exam consist of a multiple choice exam that will not be eliminatory and whose erroneous or blank answers do not have penalty.
In addition, in the same way that the Government of the Canary Islands has approved it for the General Administration of the Autonomous Community, a list of questions with their respective answers for each FEA specialty must be published sufficiently in advance, based on those that the Qualifying Court will prepare the examination questionnaire for each specialty.
Thus, the SEMCA details that the conditions posed by the Board
Health Sector with respect to the Administration constitute a “blatant comparative injury and an intolerable discriminatory treatment”.
In his opinion, “this proposal from the Ministry harms us and must be corrected, if it is possible in other ministries of the same autonomous community, it can be done in Health, without a doubt, we are not going to consent to being second-class public employees.”
The union also regrets that the director of the SCS, Elisabeth Hernández, has not replied to the letter that has been sent to her requesting a meeting and in which she was informed of the lack of 51 positions.
“If the head of the SCS is not even capable of responding to a letter from the strike committee addressed in the most constructive terms to establish dialogue, we must understand that she has no interest in preventing the start of a strike that will affect the attendance of patients from the Canary Islands as of December 2”, he points out.
