PSOE de Lanzarote has demanded the immediate halt to the modification of the statutes of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers (CACT) that the current government team of the Cabildo intends to approve, considering that it represents a serious setback in the labor guarantees of the staff and calls into question the public nature of the entity.
The general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote and deputy in Congress, María Dolores Corujo, has shown her “deep concern” given the elimination in the new statutory text of the express reference to the staff and their legal link with the Cabildo Insular in case of dissolution of the entity.
“Eliminating that guarantee is not a technical or minor issue. It is a step backward that generates uncertainty among the staff and opens the door to scenarios we thought were overcome. Every time the right governs, the workers of the Centers see how their future is once again called into question”, Corujo has pointed out.
The socialist leader recalled that during the previous term a new collective agreement was approved that reinforced the public nature of the company and protected labor rights. “We work to consolidate stability and strengthen public services. What they are doing now is just the opposite: sowing doubts and weakening the guarantees that were so hard to achieve,” she stated.
Corujo warned that this modification revives approaches from the past that already generated enormous social concern: “This takes us back to the times when Coalición Canaria intended to privatize the Centers. We cannot allow, through the back door, the public nature of the CACT to be questioned again.”
In this regard, the PSOE also warns that the statutory modification responds to the need to fit certain business initiatives, such as the so-called ‘Reintegra’ project linked to the company Cumbre 8, which would force the statutes to be adapted for its execution. “We already warned about it in the previous Board of Directors: the statutes cannot be forced to make them fit into specific projects. The statutes must protect the general interest and the public nature of the entity, not adapt to particular interests”, he/she/it underlined.
The socialist general secretary conveys the support of the PSOE of Lanzarote to the Works Council: “The oldest workers know very well what they had to go through to defend the public management of the Centers. And to the new ones we tell them not to give up. If today we allow guarantees to be eliminated, tomorrow the horizon will be much more uncertain,” she stated.
“The CACT are public. They are the heritage of Lanzarote and its people. Just as we fought to keep them as a public company, we will once again stand by the staff to defend them. We are not going to allow any step backward,” concluded María Dolores Corujo.