SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 13 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Metropolitano de Tenerife has issued a statement on Monday in which it rejects the strike committee’s request to set the working day at 35 hours a week and urges the unions to negotiate and put an end to their “uncompromising attitude”.
The company emphasizes that in July an agreement was closed with the workers to sign a new collective agreement that the works council later “broke unilaterally at the time of signing and without any explanation.”
Since then, it indicates that the position of the union representatives “has radicalized” in such a way that the meetings held have been “totally unsuccessful” since they intend to reopen aspects already agreed upon “without any compensation” and whose “sole objective” consists of the reduction of the working day of Metropolitano workers to 35 hours per week.
According to Metropolitano, “the company is not authorized by the Cabildo de Tenerife to negotiate, much less agree to reduce the working day of its workers to 35 hours a week, given that not only no other company in the public sector of the Cabildo has it, but that not even the officials of the Cabildo themselves enjoy it”.
Thus, they insist that “any request that is made in this sense is, therefore, doomed to get nowhere.”
For this reason, the company urges the workers’ representatives to return to the path of negotiation and pact that culminated in the agreement of July 2022, and to “abandon maximalist positions that are impossible to satisfy, in order not to harm the people of Tenerife and to the public transport service at a time of historical record number of passengers”.
Thus, it has summoned the strike committee to a new meeting “for the common good of workers, company and society in general”.
