The Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) in Las Palmas has issued a statement denouncing "a new regulatory breach of the Civil Guard with its workers, this time in the Costa Teguise Barracks." "They forgot to build changing rooms and bathrooms for use by the agents who provide services there" and instead "the bosses preferred the construction of a barbecue and the placement of a beach bar," the association denounces.
"The Civil Guard, as in the song of the summer, prefers a barbecue to changing rooms and toilets," ironizes the AUGC in its press release, in which it explains that it has already filed a complaint with the Provincial Labor Inspectorate in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, "for the systematic breach of the Law on Prevention of Occupational Risks" in this barracks.
In addition, they point out that "another complaint was also filed, as the barbecue works lack any type of signage", since "it does not have warning, obligation or information signs". Therefore, they state that "it is unknown which company is carrying out the work, the time it has to execute it, as well as the budget with which it has for its realization".
"Typical practices from not so distant times"
For this reason, they ask the director of the Civil Guard, José Manuel Holgado, to proceed with the "elimination of these typical practices from not so distant times, in which the personal interest of certain bosses prevailed over complying with the rights of the agents, and that as a jurist of recognized prestige, he enforces the Law within the Civil Guard, such as the Prevention of Occupational Risks, to ensure the health of its workers".
In addition, the association recalls that it had also publicly denounced the breaches in this barracks, specifically in the facilities of the Integrated Exterior Surveillance System (SIVE), inaugurated in March 2007. From the AUGC they explain that the Law on Prevention of Occupational Risks "is fully applicable to the Civil Guard since the publication of Royal Decree 179/2005, that is, two years before the then Government delegate, José Segura, and the current president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Carolina Darias, who was the sub-delegate of the Government in Las Palmas, inaugurated the facilities". However, instead of building those changing rooms and toilets that they demanded, they have just found themselves with the works of this barbecue.
The AUGC emphasizes in its statement that more than half of the agents in the province are affiliated to this association, which has 31,000 members throughout Spain, "being the dean of professional associations and the majority in the Council of the Civil Guard". In addition, they add that it has representation throughout the Spanish territory, in each of the units and specialties of the Corps, and "has been leading the associative movement since the arrival of democracy, when it was born as a clandestine union". To this, they add that "its fight for the democratization and demilitarization of the institution earned it the National Human Rights Award granted by the Association Pro Human Rights of Spain (APDHE) in 2010".
