Workers of the Insular Hospital have gathered this Wednesday against the "dismantling" of the hiring lists. A stoppage that is part of a strike called by Intersindical Canaria and that occurs six months after the integration of the Insular Hospital into the Canarian Health Service.
This pressure measure, which also extends to the Canary Islands University Hospital, started on June 5, facing its second day this Wednesday. In addition, two other days had been called for June 19 and 26 with two-hour stoppages. However, in the case of the Insular Hospital of Lanzarote, only 15-minute stoppages are being carried out. And, according to the head of Intersindical Canaria on the island, Coralia Lobato, "100%" minimum services have been established, so workers are concentrating only "on their break."
"And there is no overstaffing in the Insular Hospital either, so if you apply 100% minimum services, the incidents of the strike are not noticeable. And the concentrations are also being done valuing that the patient is not harmed," Lobato said.
With these protests, Intersindical Canaria denounces that "the application of the new draft order of contracting prepared by the Ministry endangers the jobs of about 4,000 workers of all professional categories" between the two health centers. "We do not know what will happen, if the new government that is formed will assess the situation and heed the demands that are being made or not," Coralia Lobato pointed out in this regard.
In the case of the Canary Islands University Hospital, a workers' assembly was scheduled for this Wednesday to assess the next union actions in order to demand that the current hiring lists be respected. "And when they decide, we will assess the situation here too," said the head of Intersindical Canaria in Lanzarote.