Marco Aurelio Pérez calls Narváez “irresponsible” given that the compromise “served to save the elections without seeking a real solution for the company”
Alejandro Marichal proposes restarting the administrative procedure to negotiate the salary increase as long as it is “coupled with a substantial improvement in the service”
The Councilor for Cleaning Beaches, Roads and Public Buildings of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council, Ruyman Cardoso (CC) has informed the Mayor's Office about the demand received by the UTE for cleaning to carry out the commitment signed by the former mayor. , Conchi Narváez, with whom he agreed to increase the salary conditions of the cleaning staff by 5%, accepting an increase in the fee of 8 euros per year, despite the fact that the legal and intervention teams issued an unfavorable report on that proposal.
The representatives of the UTE that provide the service of Beach Cleaning, Promenades, collection of urban and domestic waste, street cleaning and other similar services, and the works council signed, in March of this year, a Pre-Agreement of Collective Agreement in the that the company requested the Administration to update the salaries on the payrolls starting in the month of May 2023 and immediately begin the process of calculating arrears, with the commitment to credit them on the July payroll. After presenting the minutes of the pre-agreement of the Collective Agreement to the Administration, the then mayor requested a report on the economic quantification of the pre-agreement presented by the UTE in the contract fee, the administrative clauses of the Technical Prescription specifications and the Administrative clauses that govern the contracting of the service, for the purposes of the revisions of the Collective Agreements. The technician's report, signed on May 10, 2023, indicates that the revision of the fee "must have the prior and binding approval of the contracting body."
In turn, regarding the Technical Prescription Document, the report indicates that both the review of the Collective Labor Agreement, the staff relationship, and the stipulation with employees of agreements, pacts or contracts, in which remuneration conditions or of work, "must be consulted and ratified by the municipal Corporation, and will refrain from adopting any commitment without the prior and express authorization of the municipal plenary session."
However, despite Narváez having unfavorable reports to approve this salary increase, ignoring the stipulations of the specifications, and given the strike call announced for May 13 (beginning of this year's municipal electoral campaign); On May 11, the former mayor sent a letter to the UTE with which she showed and signed her “commitment” and expressed “agreement with the conditions agreed upon and reflected in the Pre-Agreement Minutes of the Collective Agreement” requesting the company to “ proceed to the signing of the Agreement.” Given this, the Intervention report clarifies that "the letter sent does not in any way bind the City Council towards the UTE because the Corporation in full is the competent collegiate body for the approval of a price review of the contract, and not the "Mayor-Presidency, said letter lacking legal basis and legal coverage that binds this City Council in any way."
This agreement, reports the mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Marco Aurelio Pérez, “lacks validity as it was not approved by the municipal plenary session and is the result of a totally irresponsible, clearly electoralist act that served Narváez to save the electoral campaign. without worrying about the company, its employees, much less the cleaning service provided in the municipality.” Pérez regrets that the “electoral rush has misled the company, the union representatives and the workers” given that the commitment signed without a legal report or from the Intervention, and therefore, without a budget allocation “makes it impossible to make facing for the moment the increase proposed by the company and its union representatives”
For his part, the first deputy mayor, Alejandro Marichal, indicates that as the technician points out in his report, although the processing of the price review is proceeding for the period between January 01, 2022 and December 31 of 2025, this “cannot be assessed until the Minutes of the Pre-Agreement of the Collective Agreement are ratified by the Municipal Plenary Session.” The solution will be, Marichal indicates, to negotiate the terms with the company and begin the administrative procedure following the steps established by the regulations. “The Department of Cleaning is open to dialogue and negotiating said salary increase as long as this salary increase entails a substantial improvement in the cleaning service offered,” concludes Marichal.
