The Health Sector of the UGT-Public Services Federation has confirmed this Wednesday the start of the general strike in the DIAVIDA ambulances, the concessionaire company for scheduled or non-urgent health transport of the Cantabrian Health Service (SCS), from 00 hours this Thursday, November 28.
As stated in a statement by the president of the DIAVIDA works council in Cantabria, Gildo Cabañeros, The company has “finally” paid all the October salary slips and is paying the November ones “but with money borrowed or advanced from the Cantabrian Health Service itself, while it continues without providing any documentation that guarantees its economic liquidity for future salaries” .
Furthermore, he has indicated that Even if it pays all payrolls for November, “the company would still owe money to the workforce because it has not paid the salary increase provided for in the collective agreement, 2.5%, neither in October nor in November.”
ECONOMIC GUARANTEES
Therefore, for the union member, “we are in the same situation” since “there are no economic guarantees of any kind so that what happened in the first month of DIAVIDA’s service with the non-payment of salaries does not happen again in the coming months.” “. Because in his opinion “it is common sense that the emergency solution that has now been used with the Cantabrian Health Service as a lender has no future.”
Cabañeros has pointed out that yes DIAVIDA does not have its own financial liquidity “and will be paying each month with the money that is advanced from the payrolls of subsequent months, “The problem will never be solved because this is a matter of this company not doing its homework when it budgeted for the service it was going to provide and simply does not have the money to pay the staff who perform it.”
Without commitment to the agreement and the specifications, Cabañeros has pointed out that, in addition, the general strike was called due to the “repeated non-compliance” with the collective agreement and the specifications for which the company has already received “a good number of sanctions.” and there is also “no progress in this because DIAVIDA does not commit to anything in writing.”
“What’s more, we suspect that it will get worse because now the company even wants to make a substantial modification to the working conditions with changes in schedules,” according to the president of the committee.
Cabañeros recalled that the strike was postponed from last Monday until November 28 “as a gesture of goodwill in negotiation and with the hope that the company would rectify it and an agreement could be reached, but that has not been the case.”
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