The extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors of the Centers, which began on Monday afternoon and ended after 10 p.m. this Tuesday, has concluded with a "counterproposal" to the workers - supported by CC, PSOE, Podemos, PP, Ciudadanos and the representatives of the employers' associations and the town councils - to try to get them to call off the strike, which has already lasted more than a week. During the morning, the Strike Committee had launched a proposal to end the stoppages, but this has been rejected by the company, so the Council has continued to meet to find an agreement.
What the management of the Centers does accept is to pay in the October payroll the amounts corresponding to the availability, transport and laundry supplements for the vacation month of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017, ceasing to deduct the 35.19 euros that had been deducted until now from the payrolls, "in compliance with the judgment issued by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands".
However, the point of discord continues to be the personal supplement received by the workers, which the Committee maintains was calculated below what was established in the guarantee letters they received after the collective agreement of 2014 was signed. In their latest proposal, raised by the representatives of the Committee who attended the meeting of the Board of Directors this Tuesday morning, they asked that this amount be paid to them, which they have claimed with different lawsuits in the courts. And in case the Justice does not give them the reason later, they committed to return those sums.
On this point, finally the majority of the members of the Board of Directors has approved the proposal to commission an independent audit, by an auditor that must be accepted by both parties, "to determine if the adaptation of the new agreement in 2014 has meant any reduction in the remuneration of workers in annual computation for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015". And, according to the judgment of the TSJC, the objective of this personal supplement was that the workers who were already on staff when the new agreement was approved, did not see their payrolls reduced.
In addition, it has also been agreed that the Centers request a report from the Intervention of the Cabildo and a legal report, prepared by an independent labor lawyer, clarifying whether the proposal of the Strike Committee conforms to the provisions of the judgments issued so far, as well as the General State Budget Law of 2017 and the Collective Agreement of the Entity. Meanwhile, they ask the workers to "value" the "immediate suspension of the strike".
