After backing up its claim to lay off 7 of his 19 workers, and open a negotiation with labor representation, the Centre of the UNED in Cartagena can start the course without layoffs
The biased interpretation of a lack of immediate liquidity, which has tried to pass a budget deficit does not exist, the result of late payment of the grant of this year by the Regional Government, led to the announcement of layoffs 7 and the delay for months the payment to tutors.
This lack of liquidity, which led to the announcement of redundancies and 7 have been delayed for months the payment of their classes to the tutors, have their origin in the delayed payment of subsidy from the regional government and the reduction of the City of Cartagena.
The Regional Government still owes the UNED 430 000 euros budgeted for 2011 and 79 000 in 2010.
If this organization had made payments on time Cartagena Centre of the UNED not have been subjected to hardship and economic strangulation that has been found since the mid-year.
CCOO administrations claim debtor for payment of amounts owed to the university before the end of the current financial year.
CCOO with workers at the university continues to seek alternatives, economic and operating conditions, which avoid the announced privatization of the UNED University Bookstore.
Workers and unions are convinced that better management of the Library would be economically profitable.
The current situation of the Centre of the UNED Cartagena suggests a serious reflection on the responsibility of the regional administration in the economic difficulties of various education-related entities and the ease with which it comes to layoffs as a first option to the economic difficulties when, as is evident in this case, there are other alternatives that do not fall the consequences of the crisis on jobs and workers.
Source: CCOO Región de Murcia