The Contentious-Administrative Court number 6 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has condemned the Teguise City Council for "violation of the right to freedom of association", according to the Independent and Civil Servants Union (CSIF), which sued both the City Council and the Workers' Commissions and UGT.
"In a recent ruling, the Justice supports the criteria of the CSIF, which the Teguise City Council and the CCOO and UGT unions excluded from the General Board of the Lanzarote Consistory," he says in a statement, in which he recalls that "with this, the presence of the CSIF union in the negotiation of the working conditions of the staff at the service of the Teguise City Council was prevented."
In the ruling, the Court fully upholds the appeal and orders "the immediate cessation of the anti-union behavior of the Teguise City Council, with the adoption of appropriate measures for the participation of the plaintiff union in the General Negotiation Table, with full restoration of trade union action." The ruling was issued on February 8 and has now been declared final, as none of the parties have appealed.
"Consideration of the most representative union"
"In the conclusions, the magistrate indicates that 'it has been proven and it is also public and notorious that the CSIF has the consideration of the most representative union', an opinion shared by the Public Prosecutor's Office, from the first moment, and that is objectively and reasonably sustained," they emphasize in their statement.
The union defends its "clearly conciliatory spirit" and states that it is "willing to negotiate with any honest Administration that fights for the rights of citizens to be attended with the highest quality, and also for the rights of public employees who work for them."
From CSIF it is insisted that "that defense of the public and the improvement of the working conditions of the workers, will make them comply with all the means at their disposal".