The week of strikes will last from February 27 to March 5. The workers have been without an agreement for five years and demand the homologation of their conditions to the Osakidetza staff.
Euskaraz irakurri: Osakidetzak azpikontratatutako garbitzaileek astebeteko greba egingo dute, LAB, UGT, CCOO eta ESK-k deituta
The LAB, UGT, CCOO and ESK unions have called a week-long strike, from February 27 to March 5, in the cleaning service subcontracted by Osakidetza. The workers carry five years without agreement and claim the homologation with the Osakidetza staff.
In a press conference held in Bilbao they explained that at the time the three parties involved -companies, workers and Osakidetza- agreed to apply “the same conditions”, but that after fifty meetings things are “practically as at the beginning”.
They have recalled that they began the negotiation of the new agreement in 2018, “convinced that this was going to be a simple negotiation”, since it meant “only having to adapt and update certain matters to the new agreements that have been reached within Osakidetza”.
However, they have indicated that after the innumerable meetings held, the absolute blockade of the negotiation “is evident”. “We are seeing that both the companies and the client (Osakidetza) are breaking the principle of approval by refusing to adapt and apply the different subjects applied to Osakidetza’s own personnel,” they added.
As they have highlighted, they are not claiming issues that go beyond homologation, what they are asking for is “to have access to the different calls for professional careers, a broader and fairer system for covering vacancies, access to partial retirement linked to the relief, permits and licenses that the Osakidetza staff already have recognized, etc”.
The union federations believe that the winning companies have settled “in a comfortable position, directing the responsibility to the management of Osakidetza, refusing to agree on any matter with the social party, if it is not with the prior endorsement of the management.”
Source: Eitb
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