They demand “eliminating precariousness” and denounce the constant lack of measures in terms of occupational health and safety.
Workers on the staff of the Zubieta incinerator (Gipuzkoa) will start this Tuesday a indefinite strike for a few “decent” health and working conditions. As he remarked, the objective is to “eliminate the precariousness” of a work center where the company, managed by the subcontractor Ekobal operation and maintenance SL, “without any argument he fires, while health and work conditions deteriorate“.
The Union IS IT OVER THERE, in a statement, he denounced that “the lack of occupational health and safety measures they are a constant “from the beginning of the activity of the plant. In his opinion, the evaluation of occupational risks” is inadequate and does not adjust to the reality “of the Zubieta work center.
Likewise, it has pointed out that Labor journeys, in many cases, “they last up to 12 hours of uninterrupted shift, establishing in turn the obligation to carry out overtime above the legal maximum allowed“.
He has also added that ” calendars change from one day to the next, without respecting the breaks between days, nor the stipulated vacations, which makes it impossible to reconcile work and social and family life “, he added.
IS IT OVER THERE has demanded the opening of the negotiation of a company agreement that “collects the specific reality” of the plant and has criticized that the company “systematically carries out dismissals without any justification.” As he has pointed out, this practice “has been repeated since the beginning of the activity”, and the last dismissal has taken place a few dates ago, for which he has demanded “his immediate reinstatement.”
The union considers “essential to respond to all the matters denounced” and has stressed that “the responsibility falls both to the management of Ekobal and to the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council. “The union assures that” the management of the company must scrupulously comply with labor and environmental legislation “since both those who work in the incinerator, as well as the public in general, “they should enjoy that right.”
Finally, ELA has denounced that minimum services established by the Basque Government “violate the right to strike”, since in the production area “they reach more than 70% of the workforce, and in the recovery plant they exceed 90%”.
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