The works council of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers of the Cabildo met this Thursday with the President of the First Institution to convey their feelings regarding the hiring of five new managers at the CACT. "We have raised what the workers decided in the meeting last Monday because we believe that the collective agreement is being violated," said Antonio Bonilla, spokesperson for the committee. In this meeting, where the president listened to the workers, it was decided that a new meeting will be held next Monday between the committee, the manager of the Epel and the counselor of the Tourist Centers, Pedro San Ginés.
"On Monday we are going to sit down to try to make a first contact, which is what should have been done a long time ago," commented Bonilla. The representative of the workers does not see this meeting as a negotiation, although he does believe that it is an important step in resolving this conflict, "because at least we are sitting down to talk about the matter," said Antonio Bonilla. Inés Rojas, president of the Cabildo, has also committed to trying to guide the two parties to dialogue because, according to what she has stated in this meeting, it is the only way to resolve this conflict.
"In this meeting, the president commented that what is happening is that there has been a problem of form, an aspect in which we all agree. The ways in which things are done are sometimes not adequate if we do not encounter people who are willing to dialogue, who exhaust the path of dialogue, since there are people who boast of being willing to dialogue and then do not dialogue," added Antonio Bonilla, spokesperson for the works council.
Measures that the workers have adopted
The works council of the Tourist Centers has also stated that they have already filed, this Thursday, the lawsuit in the Canary Islands Labor Court, as they had announced. This lawsuit refers to the possible breach of the collective agreement, by hiring these management positions. Bonilla also commented that they have also started the informative round that they were going to carry out through the different Tourist Centers so that all the workers would know the situation they are facing. Regarding the announcement of the holding of a possible strike, Andrés Bonilla commented that the committee wants to exhaust the path of dialogue first so as not to harm the centers.
San Ginés believes that the Court will not rule in their favor
The counselor of the CACT, Pedro San Ginés, for his part, states that before the meeting with the president of the Cabildo took place, he had already formally convened the committee to the meeting that will be held on Monday, between the workers, the manager and the counselor himself. "What the president has done in the meeting they have held is to summon them to the one I had convened them to previously," added the counselor of the Tourist Centers to La Voz.
"I believe that it will be relatively easy to understand each other, as soon as they let us know what they intend, which they have not yet done." Pedro San Ginés also commented that the understanding between both parties is not so complicated, since, according to the counselor, what the company has proposed is a necessary and reasonable aspect for the Tourist Centers, and therefore also warns that there will be no turning back on this decision.
Regarding the complaint that the workers have filed with the Canary Islands Labor Court, San Ginés has stated that it is a right and a duty of a works council, when it understands that its agreement is being violated, but he also considers that this complaint will not prosper. "I also predict that, in this case, the Labor Court will rule against them because, otherwise, we would not have proposed what we have proposed."
