The Lanzarote Bus, Guaguas Lanzarote, Jocaba and Guaguas Jocaba workers have already completed 32 days of strike and, far from bringing positions closer with the company, they announce that they will intensify the protest from next Monday, when classes start again.
“In today's assembly it has been decided to breach all the minimum services that are decreed when school transport resumes”, announced Intersindical Canaria, which affirms that for the staff “it is preferable that they be fired than to continue enduring the evils of the management of these companies”.
The union refers to what happened with the payrolls they have just received from last month, which it claims range from 49 euros to 300 euros. And that despite the fact that they complied “to the letter with the abusive minimum services” that were decreed by the Government of the Canary Islands for school transport, and which were set at 100%.
“It is understood that the people who did the school transport should have been paid those days in full”, IC maintains, which denounces that the management is “portrayed with a miserable and vile trick, which seeks, knowing that this is going to be denounced, to prolong the economic agony of its employees over time so that they lift the strike without achieving anything”.
“This outrage, far from intimidating, has further ignited the spirits of the staff, as they consider that the intention is to humiliate them, even indulging in the Three Wise Men of their children”, denounces the union.
Meeting suspended in the Cabildo
Regarding the meeting to which the company had been summoned this Tuesday in the Cabildo, Intersindical regrets that the Island Corporation itself has finally postponed the meeting. According to him, this “has left a bad feeling for the strikers, who think that the Corporation is not giving too much priority to their problem either, and even more so with the shamelessness that has been committed with the payment of payrolls”.
Two weeks ago, the president and the Minister of Transport received representatives of the workers, but the business side did not attend either, claiming that it had not been “summoned in time”.
“In case any party has forgotten, remind them that these workers are people, that behind them they have families to support, and that they are not going to allow them to be harmed by arrogance”, IC warns.
Faced with the possibility that non-compliance with minimum services will lead to the dismissal of workers, the union insists that it is “preferable” given the company's attitude, and points out that “they pity the poor people who come to try to earn a living in this group of transporters after what is happening”.
