Inalsa workers still haven't set a date for the strike, two weeks after approving this pressure measure in an assembly on August 31. The enigmatic call, which has not yet been presented, depends on "some information" that the Works Council is trying to obtain.
At least, that's what the Committee's spokesperson, Ramón Pérez, assured on Radio Lanzarote, where he didn't explain exactly what information they are waiting for or why the call is being delayed, after having voted on it in assembly. "Putting it sooner or later depends on a series of steps that we are taking in the Commercial Court," said Pérez Farray, who did not want to clarify what type of information he intends to gather. He only limited himself to saying that it is "a verification with respect to the bankruptcy procedure."
"Depending on the information we are gathering, the strike may change in one way or another. For the workers and for the Committee, it is very important to have the information we are gathering," he said again on Radio Lanzarote. "In August, the Court is running at half speed, it is in Las Palmas and we have a series of inconveniences to get that information," he indicated.
"They have pulled our leg"
Ramón Pérez told La Voz last week that this Monday the Committee would notify "something important" to the media. Despite this, this "notification" has not occurred and Pérez believes that it "will not take place" throughout this day. "We have asked the bankruptcy administrators for a series of information, but they have pulled our leg, they don't take us seriously," he denounced.
In this sense, he pointed out that the Committee "is angry" about the attitude of the administrators. "It is not serious that they commit to some things and do not carry them out, because they are grown-ups, the workers have assumed their responsibility when they have had to assume it. This makes it difficult to reach different agreements," he said.
"Defenselessness"
Pérez Farray has assured that the workers feel "defenseless" in the face of the attitude of the bankruptcy administrators, who still "have not provided" the report they presented to the judge to request a modification of the labor agreement. "We are waiting for that document, it is the appeal that we have requested from the Court, but as of today, we have not received any response," he criticized.
"It is not normal for workers to have to go backwards in rights and for there to be an attempt to turn the population against the employees, making them understand that they have been abusers, that they have committed fraud against the company, that they are unsupportive and unacceptable. All this, and when there is talk of hours stolen from Inalsa, does not correspond to reality," said the spokesperson for the Works Council.
In this sense, he has assured that "they intend to portray the workers as real crooks." "I refuse to do that," he indicated, while defending that the half hour for a snack, criticized by the bankruptcy administrators, continues to be counted as working time, as well as the hours that the employees work.
"Those hours are there"
Regarding the hours that the administrators claim are not even contemplated in the schedules, Pérez Farray has explained that these "are collected in another part of the company's structure." "There are face-to-face and availability hours. When a person is called at one or two in the morning to go to Inalsa, that does not appear in the schedules, but those hours are there," he justified.
However, the spokesperson for the Committee has indicated that if the bankruptcy administrators have detected an error in the workers' schedule, "first you talk, and you discuss, and nothing happens." "But the workers have not stolen hours from the company, because they are not the ones who distribute the working day," he stated.
The critical sector
Pérez Farray has also had to talk about the sector of workers who do not agree with this strike, which has not yet been called. "The assemblies in Inalsa, by custom, are not massive, not even in emergency issues," he pointed out. Despite this, he did not want to give the figure of the employees who attended the Assembly and, therefore, voted in favor of the strike. "It is not true that there were 30 workers, that is a lie. There were more people, but I don't know exactly how many, because I look, but I don't count them," said the spokesperson for the Committee.
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