There will be no layoffs for the 28 workers of UTE Tabaiba. The Minister of Public Works of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Alfredo Mendoza, affirms that the cleaning operators will continue working, but subrogated to another company.
This is how the Cabildo responded to the demands of the workers of UTE Tabaiba, the company that had been providing the service of maintaining the margins, roads and gardens of the island. The employees protested this Thursday in front of the doors of the Cabildo after learning of the island's decision not to renew the services of the company.
The termination of the contract was due to "certain difficulties" with the current contractor, as Alfredo Mendoza said on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero's morning show. The end of the contract is scheduled for March 24. To avoid leaving the operators unemployed, the island's first institution insists that it is looking for a company to subrogate the work.
"As soon as we have the company that continues with the service, the workers will be subrogated to that company," Alfredo Mendoza announced this Friday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
Faced with the risk of losing their jobs, the operators asked the Cabildo to keep their positions. "I wasn't around there and we couldn't attend to them at the time they had planned, so they were there during the morning," said Mendoza, who says he attended to the workers' requests at noon.
At that time they were informed of the decision that the company had already told them: the contract between UTE Tabaibas and the Cabildo had ended. However, this did not mean that the workers were going to be out on the street.
The counselor recognizes that "there has been a lack of communication" and that the service "is tremendously essential for this Cabildo and for this government." The Cabildo of Lanzarote is "trying to speed up everything" so that the service continues immediately under another entity.
