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Prezero and Pérez Moreno: Sitca shows its teeth in Juan Grande Ecopark

Prezero and Pérez Moreno: Sitca shows its teeth in Juan Grande Ecopark

Gara Hernandez Saturday, May 11, 2024

The Canary Islands union center Sitca has taken over the works council of the Gran Canaria Ecopark, that is, the Juan Grande Environmental Complex that allows access to waste data from Agüimes, Ingenio, La Aldea de San Nicolás, Mogán, San Bartolomé of Tirajana, Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Telde and Valsequillo to opt for local contracts by the successful bidders of its construction and owners of its operation. Prezero is owned by Lidl's owner, the Schwarz Group, which also includes trading companies Kaufland as well as Schwarz Produktion. That's why at Lidl there are clay pots for sale called Prezero obtained from recycled sludge. Sitca would have always rejected the methods used by the workers of the company Ayagaures Medio Ambiente (Pérez Moreno), the partners in Prezero's UTE, for allegedly managing with schemes typical of a cotton plantation of those in the Chesapeake Bay of Virginia and Maryland, and in parts of the Carolinas in the USA.

Sitca has managed to take over the works council and that is dangerous at least for Prezero's Canarian partners. The reason is that only small island companies have works councils and the work in this type of risk groups usually begins as a drop of oil to end up in an oil well with serious reputational risk problems, just as it did Sitca in his day at FCC Medio Ambiente created a wild cleaning strike on Las Canteras Beach in the middle of Holy Week and which later lasted 30 days while the PSOE governed in Las Palmas. In the case of the Germans of Prezero, they have a more evolved type of policy because the unions have a presence in what is called the surveillance committee, which has more power than the board of directors. The Canarian part would be more textile or cotton-based.

The Gran Canaria Sur Ecopark is not in South Carolina but "it has not been free of labor conflict throughout its recent history," says Sitca. Sitca's offer, which has no connection with the very moderate CC.OO and the modern UGT, has managed to combine the interest and support of this workforce, "who wants to see their demands addressed thanks to a unionism more in line with the times that They run." "98% of the votes of Ecoparque Gran Canaria Sur have supported Sitca", "which makes it clear what the wishes and needs of this staff are", said the union that will count on the efforts of Juan Pedro Pérez Cabrera, José A. Socorro Santana, Juan José Marrero Espino, Octavio S. López Batista and Blas J. Sarmiento Caballero.

 

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