The trade union section of UGT in Arrecife has demanded a new "urgent" meeting of the Negotiation Table of the City Council's public employees "to discuss the issue of summer hours", after the government group announced this Monday that the reduced working day will be maintained during the months of July and August, but that employees will have to recover the hours not worked afterwards.
In a statement, UGT assures that it is "the government group of the Arrecife City Council, with its mayor at the head, who opposes the City Council remaining open all year round from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.". They even go so far as to say that "the right to work is being prohibited", so they ask that this opening hours be established "throughout the year, in a negotiated manner".
The UGT trade union representatives on the Works Council, who claim to have been the only ones to attend the meeting held last week with the Councillor for Human Resources, Ángeles García, admit that at that meeting they agreed to maintain the reduced summer working day. However, unlike what the City Council has conveyed, they assure that the government group proposed that these hours should not be recoverable. "From UGT we value it as a very generous proposal" and "we support the decision, considering that it benefited the workers", the union points out.
However, they assure that the Councillor for Human Resources has unilaterally modified "this agreement", by informing them in a circular they received this Monday, that they will have to recover those hours.
For this reason, they now demand that the mayor "does not prohibit the right to work and establishes the opening hours of the City Council between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. throughout the year, in a negotiated manner".
In the event that this request is not met, UGT warns that it could undertake "protest actions" to inform public opinion that it is the government group of the City Council that has "imposed" this reduced working day. In addition, despite the fact that they agreed to reduce the working day, they assure that they agree with "the feeling of the residents of Arrecife" to maintain this schedule of seven and a half hours a day, "with the aim, among other things, of offering greater attention to the public".
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