The Labor Personnel of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands has returned to strike this Wednesday in all the Islands. In Lanzarote, they have concentrated throughout the morning in front of the Insular Education Office, as a representation of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The assembly of delegates held in Las Palmas has agreed to initiate lockdowns in the different dependencies of the Government of the Canary Islands and boycott various institutional acts, as new pressure measures.
The Works Council has asked the Minister of the Presidency, José Miguel Ruano, to sit down to negotiate with the workers.
Meanwhile, this is already the third day of strike since the union struggle began. The stoppages will continue on January 25 and February 21, although as stated in the statement transmitted to the editorial staff of this newspaper by the union delegate of the Works Council in Lanzarote, Andrés Allí, "we are studying to extend the days of stoppage and protests until the 2007 elections, if the regional Administration does not seek a way out of the conflict".
Demands
The homologation of salaries with civil servants, the extension of the working day and the duration of contracts, the consolidation of employment and the improvement of the social conditions of the Labor Personnel are the main demands of the Works Council that groups these workers, more than 8,000 thousand throughout the Canary Islands and 163 in Lanzarote.
Currently, the salary differences range between categories from 162.54 to 353.48 euros per month.
In addition, workers demand that the working day and the duration of contracts be extended, since the three-hour daily working days and ten-month contracts, which in some cases the regional administration applies to labor personnel, are considered to be "demotivating".
Likewise, the unions denounce that there are people who have been working for years with temporary contracts, "without this Government launching a public job offer, creating instability in the worker in their personal and family life".
The Labor Personnel also asks that "measures that favor the reconciliation of family and work life, health protection, and incentive for early retirement and training" be put in place.
