Somos Lanzarote will present a motion to the next plenary session of the Cabildo, worked on together with the representatives of the Company Committee of the Insular Hospital, in which it is demanded that the positions that, due to retirement, have been left vacant in the health area be filled through public employment. The spokesperson for Somos Lanzarote in the Cabildo, Tomás López, highlights that the objective is to "stop the privatization of services that has been taking place by amortizing vacant positions and covering services of the health center through external companies".
The organization states that, "in recent years, the staff of the Cabildo's Health area has been reduced as pre-existing positions have been amortized as staff retired." "There is a premeditated policy on the part of the government group to leave the positions without public workers, in order to hand over various services to private companies; so far both the laundry and the cleaning of some facilities have been put out to tender by external companies, but the forecast and the political guideline is to continue outsourcing others", they assure from Somos Lanzarote, which intends to reverse this trend through its initiative.
Promises broken by the government group
The motion also demands that the Cabildo's government group comply with the agreement that, three days before the last local elections, in May 2015, it adopted in the Governing Council, in which it was committed to launching public employment offers that, while covering vacant positions, would reduce the high rate of interim positions observed in the Insular Hospital, with 25% of the staff with interim or temporary contracts.
"The failure to convene public employment offers and the maintenance of such high temporality is one of the many breaches that the government presided over by Pedro San Ginés, of Coalición Canaria, has been carrying out throughout this legislature with respect to the Insular Hospital", they point out from Somos Lanzarote.
From the organization they recall that, also in the pre-election period, the current president committed, together with the Canary Islands Government, that the Hospital would be integrated into the Canary Islands Health Service by the end of 2016, "integration in which no formal progress has yet been made". "The adaptation of the remuneration to the staff, to adapt it to the current agreement, is another of the claims that workers have been demanding, without a response from the current government", they conclude.
