For the first time in history, the collective calls a 24-hour strike to denounce the shortage of personnel and of sufficient technical and material resources to carry out their tasks.
The first major general strike in the history of labor inspectors, that group whose mission is to ensure compliance with labor obligations and the health and safety of workers, already has a date: it will be next March 30. This is an unprecedented call, since never before have all the staff of the agency, both inspectors, sub-inspectors and administrative staff, organized a 24-hour break to denounce the minimum conditions that allow them to fulfill their tasks, tasks that in recent years have increased exponentially and, however, instead of growing, the workforce has been reduced.
It is not a surprise strike, since for months the eight unions that sign the call have been warning about it: CC OO, CIG, CSIF, FESESS, SITSS, SISLASS, UGT and UPIT. “The Labor and Social Security Inspection suffers an accumulation of deficits that place its activity on the verge of failure,” these organizations explained in the statement sent to the media on Wednesday.
“The necessary staff is lacking, the fundamental technical and material resources are lacking, there is no recognition of the effort of its staff,” denounced the group, which warned that the collaboration they have been providing in recent years to save the proper functioning of the institution «is in the process of exhausting itself».
The unions accuse the department led by Yolanda Díaz of “weakness” for not complying with the pact reached with them last July, in which a series of measures were collected, including an increase in the workforce due to the that reinforcements of personnel were agreed, to save the operation of the institution.
Previously and as a first collective protest measure, concentrations of inspection workers have been called before each of their provincial headquarters for March 22 between 12:00 and 12:30.