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The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, received this morning a representation of the Federation of Independent Trade Workers (FETICO), which integrates workers from the Eroski Shopping Center, in the Rambla de Benipila, affected by their imminent closing.

The mayor has transferred municipal support and has advanced that the City of Cartagena will do everything possible so that the 100 people of the Eroski Shopping Center in the city do not run out of work.

The first mayor of Cartagena has said she felt worried about it.

"We are talking about men and women from Cartagena who, after 20 years working, are left without a job.

Therefore, it is a situation that worries me and will take me a long time, as long as I can, "said Castejón.

He has also indicated that he will try to convince anyone who is missing that Cartagena is "the best city" and that it is necessary to invest in it, although the consistory "has no competence in terms of employment nor can it require a chain to remain in the city".

The mayor thanked the members of the FETICO trade union "their understanding" and believes that Eroski workers can still give a lot of them.

For this reason, Ana Belén Castejón has offered various alternatives to people who could lose their jobs.

One of the options is for the Local Development and Employment Agency to keep a list of the dismissed people.

The list will be "detailed, by age, experience and profession".

The mayor of Cartagena affirms that a detailed study of these professionals will be made.

That document will be taken to the Local Council of Commerce.

"I will make available to all businesses in Cartagena that we have great professionals who come from there, who are out of work and deserve an opportunity, many of them may reach 50 years of age".

Another option that the mayoress of Cartagena has proposed to them is that of cooperativism.

Castejón affirms that "it is a formula to organize business that in other points of the Region, the workers have united and have gone ahead".

The meeting was attended by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, the president of the Eroski Company Committee, Bartolomé Muñoz, the general secretary of Fetico in the Region of Murcia, Luis Tornero, and the general secretary of the union at the national, Felix Gómez.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena