The Governing Board approved at its meeting this morning, the Agreement on Working Conditions for the personnel and the Collective Agreement for the City workforce, both of which have been agreed at the negotiating table and signed City of Cartagena also this morning, Councillor of Finance and Personnel, José Cabezas, and representatives of CCOO, CSIF and SIME, which represent 70 percent of the nearly 1,500 municipal employees.
The council head has appeared after the Governing Board to explain the contents of this agreement, which it considers provides more justice, more security and more participation in municipal personnel management.
Seamount has indicated that it is a fair deal, because the benefits contained in these documents benefit all workers in the House and for the first time, equates rights to the 300 employees of autonomous agencies such as the Institute of Social Services, Coastal Institute, Municipal Town Planning, collection management, People's University, Casa del Niño Municipal Sports Foundation, Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver or Mass Coral Tomás Luis de Victoria.
It has also emphasized that offers greater security, because they are detailed millimeter and functioning systems of the bodies responsible for monitoring the distribution of profits and control the work of municipal employees.
Finally he referred to the appearance of participation, which will result in a union presence in all the working committees on issues involving education and prevention, safety and health, clothing, regulation of labor exchanges.
THREE YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS
Councilman Staff also commented that with the signing today, culminating a process of negotiations that began in 2008, and therefore an agreement is not improvised.
At this time there have been over 130 meetings, 80 of them from the General Board of Negotiation and the fruit of that work are the 130 pages which are reflected in both agreements.
IMPROVING SOCIAL AND NO SALARY
Cabezos commented further that the agreements will not pose substantial economic gains, limited to review and update certain very specific situations that were unfair.
In this regard stresses the responsibility of trade unions in times of crisis, have agreed to differ over time possible wage demands, such as might result from the Civil Service, which the unions agreed to draw from these negotiations and not to claim that increases take effect before the end of 2015.
FLEXIBILIZACIÃ "N SCHEDULE
The agreements also fit the texts in their normative content to the new laws passed since 2007, for example, the Basic Statute for Civil Servants, and mainly to the rules of reconciling work and family, ensuring that the public employees of the council and its autonomous bodies, to relax his schedule, his days, and obtain permits if their personal circumstances such as illness or family members themselves, caring for children or older people dependent on them, determine their attention or a special family situation.
BETTER ORGANIZATION OF SERVICES
Other virtues, as head are greater discretion to the Monitoring Committees of these agreements, not only for interpretation of these agreements, but as a body concerned and worried in the correct application of standards.
Similarly, a better organization of services in times of holidays or absences of workers from low or other circumstances as well as flexible schedules, so no need to go to overtime, but in case of true emergency or unforeseen situations.
There will be a greater control over the supply of public employment and training of employees deemed necessary for job performance, which shall be provided during working hours without compensation.
UNION DEMANDS WITH FIVE ANNEXES
The agreement also includes five annexes, in the form of regulations governing various union demands:
A dress code for personnel who must wear uniforms.
An annex to the special situation of second job, for those employees belonging to templates of firefighters, police offices or brigades, which reduced psycho-physical skills, can not perform the functions formerly performed.
A Working Exchange Regulations in order to organize existing waiting lists, where appropriate, or calls for temporary contracts if necessary go to them.
An Annex of Civil Service and Career Development, which has established the basic approaches and principles for the promotion of civil servants through training, performance evaluation, and course of years, and that after the signing of this Agreement, will continue with subsequent negotiating the end to define the purpose of its implementation by mid 2015.
And the aforementioned Annex Reconciling Work and Family Life, which will allow the employee some reassurance to workers when personal circumstances will cause disruption to their working life and / or family.
Has been assigned FOR BOTH PARTIES
Personal Councilman highlighted the efforts of assignment have the two parties: City and unions, to have some agreements in force until July 31, 2015, and on which further work is needed.
Finally, publicly thanked the CCOO union representation, SIME, and CSIF, the signatories of these agreements, the work and efforts and concessions that the best interests of all workers have developed, not understanding the reasons for which UGT has not signed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena