"Since I have known them in politics, both Echedey Eugenio and Pedro San Ginés have been the ones who have endangered the economy of Lanzarote." This is how the labor advisor of the workers of the Tourist Centers, Andrés Barreto, has stated, who has celebrated the new rulings that have confirmed what the staff had been denouncing, criticizing that the Cabildo used "all the tricks there were and will be" to "steal money from the workers."
"It was a real injustice," Barreto pointed out, noting that "that is why it is convenient for the citizens of Arrecife and Lanzarote to know what elements we have at the head of the institutions." "That they tried once again to blame the workers for being privileged, for claiming benefits that no one had, when the workers were claiming what had been agreed by mutual agreement, he pointed out, after the 17 new rulings issued by the TSJC confirming that the CACTs breached the collective agreement and a court ruling for not paying 766 euros annually to the workers as bonuses as they were entitled to.
Even, the labor advisor of the Centers' workers added, "unfortunately they even used officials to say in documents what the president wanted to do with the workers, which was to deceive them." "What were they trying to achieve with this deception and what are they still trying to achieve?" asked Andrés Barreto, who believes that Justice "has given a good blow" to the management of the Centers and that he is "convinced" that the more than 200 rulings that remain to be issued regarding the bonuses "will go in that line" and that it could also be the case in the procedures opened for the personal supplement of the workers.
Thus, Andrés Barreto has given his "congratulations to the workers." "Because in the end it is being demonstrated that it is not that we like to strike because we like to harm Lanzarote, but that we were claiming a legitimate right," pointed out the labor advisor of the Centers' workers. "They have accused the workers of infinite things that in the end have been proven to be false. And such is the case that one of the consequences, even if they have hidden behind something else, is what has happened with Antonio Bonilla," he added.
Believes that the CACT could have incurred in illegalities in the Underwater Museum
Finally, and already apart from the lawsuits between the workers and the management of the CACT, Andrés Barreto has pointed out that he also believes that the Tourist Centers could have incurred in illegalities with the Underwater Museum, pointing out that "the statutes should be reviewed in that sense."
"I am not in a position to file a complaint because we are still pending in the Court and the issue of Inalsa is costing us money, but I can guarantee that I would very much like to initiate a procedure to see if that action of the Centers with respect to the underwater issue is effectively legal, which for me it is very doubtful that they can dedicate themselves to that," he indicated.
