This is 15.00 on Monday of July, and the sun is compressed in the Canary Islands. Working with heat is not easy for those who are not simple, but less for those who do this, carrying blocks in construction. This is a story made by those who know this sector for many years, and those who were indignant at the latest statements by entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in the construction of Las -Palmas, who threatened to hire workers from countries such as Chile and Peru, and who will place them in industrial production houses. “We need to make the most attractive sector,” the unions agree, having heard these threats. The CCOO and UGT history say that they are stagnant wages that are very close to the minimum inter -professional wage, when it comes to work that requires physical effort, qualifications and in conditions that do not improve over the years.
“I have been working in construction for 26 years, it is in the only sector in which I worked, and I think that the statements that they made because we are going to see. Is there an organization, administration, equality and construction of UGT FICA. He works as an administrative manager of work and guarantees that one of the keys that are approved in recent years is to encourage the sector to the youngest, which makes him more attractive.
But how can this sector be more attractive? Mendes Diaz notes that one of the proposals that were developed from UGT is that in the summer the conference is reduced to 15.00, in addition to the consideration of wages. In the same spirit, his partner Juan Carlos Perez Luzardo, General Secretary of the FICA UGT Canarias, which indicates that low construction salaries do not correspond to how difficult it is to work there like a Freemason, a pawn, formwork …
“We asked for a reduction in the day for three years during the hottest months in the summer, and we know that the temperature that we have in the Canary Islands. Work at 15.00 for construction is inhuman. This gives you the feeling that until there is a deceased for a thermal blow, they will not do anything, and in Spain there are already many provinces that already agree, ”says Beatriz Mendez.
When he talks about reducing the schedule, he says that in addition to the heat clock, he believes that it is necessary to put on the table that many employees have. “We claim that we do not only for people’s health, but also reconciliation, because many have families, and now the sector is unattractive, and therefore we are going to the services sector,” he says.
Beatrice Mendes Diaz adds that several years ago “everyone wanted to come to work in construction,” especially before the 2008 crisis, when reasonable salaries were paid, which forced workers to flourish and live dignity. Now he claims that many have left the hospitality sector. “In the end, at any hotel you charge in the same way as in work, and you are on the roof,” he summarizes.
Jose Manuel Odrida, secretary in the hygiene of labor, stability, training and employment of CCOO in the Canary Islands, also recalls that the construction conference continuously on the islands, with the exception of the case of maintaining roads. “It is true that there are companies that make up days up to 15.00 or 16.00, but they are still very few,” he says.
In addition, the CCOO representative adds that when the employer says that salaries are higher than SMI, the accounts do not go out, and that for many times the difference between the pawn and the officer is only 60 euros, so what incentive does the employee have? Therefore, he insists on the thesis that we must “make the sector much more attractive.” In this regard, he adds that there are even the first employees working as pawns.
“When they say that the pawn charges 20,000 euros per year, I do not receive accounts,” says Odrida, who indicates that this can take, but do additional hours.
That foreign workers are charging a fair
Representatives of the trade union insist that they are not threatened to attract workers from other countries. They emphasize that the phrase, how the “creak” is formulated, because it seems that the premises do not want to work or do not want to “allow themselves to be operated”. “What are those who require our rights here, and you are going to use a person from the outside? This concern, who comes from the outside and wants to welcome, be careful, but do not come to the threat, if you have your own rights, and this is good, it seems perfect to me. Why didn’t you offer at home to someone who cannot come to the south of the North Santa -Krus?
The President of the Association of Builders and Promoters of the Las -Palmas province, Maria de la Salud Gil spoke in statements of the media in June last year about the difficulties of the sector to find local work, despite the fact that, according to her, she is offered a higher salary with minimal inter -professional wages and schedules that allow you to use. And he said that foreign workers will be offered “as a housing solution, industrialized housing of 30 meters”, the location of which is studied in nuclei to guarantee legality, since it was not based on city lands, but on a common village ground from “planning problems”.
Both Juan Carlos Luzardo and Jose Manuel Odrid insist that the people who come from the outside should have the same conditions. In addition, they emphasize that the problem of housing affects the entire population as a whole and that the current wage cannot be associated with rental prices.
“The people of the Canary Islands does not want to go to other places. The Canary Islands want to stay here, but in worthy conditions, ”says Juan Carlos Luzardo from UGT.
The myth of absenteeism and high indicators of accidents
Another problem that the employer constantly puts on the table is absence. Nevertheless, trade unions affect the employer who mixes, turning on the acquitted sacrifices and permits when talking about it. “We are not talking about the fact that our employees who are sick should come to work, but about non -marriage, which is a consequence of waiting lists and readiness to wait. We must establish a professional non -customary control. Sector “.
On this issue, trade unions insist that there should also be talk about the hygiene of labor. “Those companies that have good salaries and conditions have a low level of non -waste (taking into account the fact that non -victims, permissions or vacations are not outcome),” recalls Luzardo.
“You cannot name the non -byces to a person who was given a decrease in the disease that is not incompetent, this is a decrease that the doctor gave him,” says Beatrice Mendes Diaz. “We must see if there are people, for example, a lumbar low level, because they do not have proper shoes, or they do not have a rest stop or they don’t have a belt that they should carry … Perhaps this is a topic of prevention … or why there are so many people with mental health problems …” indicate. These are problems that trade union, believes that companies should be noticed.
From the point of view of labor hygiene, trade unions insist that small enterprises multiply. “We have a preventive law that comes from the 90s and is not enough, and this is what needs to be updated so that there are no dead in construction that continue because large companies have more funds, but small ones, so that you react to their head,” says Mendes Diaz.
From CCOO it is indicated that this is a sector where numerous accidents are produced per year. In June last year, the employee died in Arukas, falling on him on the wall of work.
More women in this sector
Trade unions advise making the sector not only more attractive to young people, but also for women who guarantee that they have been included for many years. OJeda notes that they are usually not included in work at work, but in recovery. Beatrice Mendes Diaz adds that she, as the head of the administration, appreciates more parity in this area, and that there are also more women in the work. Similarly, as is responsible for equality in his trade union, he is responsible for negotiations on equality plans that construction companies for tenders and these plans include issues such as the assistance of hiring women.