"Honestly, I don't have the power to say what will happen in the future. I don't know why Intersindical Canaria has said that the UCCT is going to be dissolved or liquidated in three months. Maybe they have more data than the speaker." This is how the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, has spoken in response to the statement sent by the union, in which he feared for the future of the employees of this entity. Betancort has assured that "from the first minute" an attempt has been made to convey that "the job and the job continuity" of the employees "will be guaranteed".
Betancort explained that on December 4, the decision to assume the gardening competition was taken to the plenary session and that same day the UCCT was informed that "within the demands of the service, these workers, both those of the UCCT and those of Ayagaures, were not going to be allowed to stop working." "This has been stated by the City Council, it is the municipal will and it is embodied in an administrative specification that is currently being tendered," the mayor defended on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
But, in addition, the first mayor has assured that the government group "has gone much further" to solve this situation. "Understanding that the award takes time, we have tried through a business to attract people from the company Ayagaures to start working in the coming days. With the UCCT, we have tried, through the budget, to nominate a subsidy for the conservation of Costa Teguise," he said.
The mayor has assured that an agreement was recently reached with the UCCT to "guarantee the job continuity of these employees." For this reason, Betancort does not understand the statement of Intersindical Canaria, which "perhaps has more data than the mayor." "I think that who I have to give explanations to is the UCCT, which I don't know what message it has conveyed to its union," he indicated.
Finally, the mayor has insisted that the municipal will "is to generate and maintain employment."
