“There are workers who exceed 200 hours per month,”, according to the secretary of Social Action of the Transportation Federation of Intersindical Canaria, José Manuel Moreno in Radio Lanzarote – Onda Cero. This situation, which he says some of the Lanzarote Bus workers are experiencing, has been brought to the attention of the union's legal services, who will undertake “the corresponding complaints.”
Moreno assures that many of the Lanzarote Bus workers, who are now on their twenty-ninth day of indefinite strike, “worked 100 or 110% of the day in July and August”, when there were still workers in a situation of temporary layoff. From IC they remember that the tachograph records “from the beginning of the day until they return to the depot”, and that therefore in that time, the worker “is at the disposal of the company.”
“The availability to the company far exceeds 160 hours,” claims Moreno, who assures that the company discounts “the split shift”, and that therefore, they reflect that they work “130 or 140 hours”. In addition, he assures that the tachograph reading was shown to the president of the Cabildo and the Minister of Transport, in the meeting held this Monday.
Precisely in that meeting it was put on the table that the Cabildo of Lanzarote was going to "organize a mediation" between the company and the union, although Moreno criticizes that the company's lawyer has declared that “he has not received any invitation”. “The Cabildo cannot wait 28 days, for something that she herself said was fair”, she denounces.
The workers are “getting stronger and stronger”
Despite the extension in time of the strike days, Moreno maintains that people “are getting stronger and stronger”. In addition, he assures that the union proposed postponing the strike during the Christmas period, and the workers “have voted no”. He has even assured that the assembly has raised “breaching the minimum services of school transport”, something that has been rigorously complied with so far.
“They don't want this to be done, but it's the only thing they have left because the company has put them in that situation”, assures Moreno, who recalls that the main complaint of the workers is the elimination of the split shift continuously.
“We are willing to accept one day a week of split shift”, propose from the union, who criticize that what cannot be tolerated is that a worker “has 28 split shifts and others have two”. Within the union's proposal, they propose that it could be split “one day a week to a worker”, and that it could even be split “to twelve workers daily”.
