The strike called by the unions of the Labor and Social Security Inspection (ITSS) to protest the absence of a new list of jobs (RPT) to strengthen the body has caused an internal clash in the coalition government, between the department headed by Yolanda DÃaz and on which the body and the Ministry of Finance and Public Function depend. The second vice president’s team had been negotiating with the workers’ representatives measures to satisfy their claims. But, as they denounced this Wednesday, the refusal of MarÃa Jesús Montero’s team to authorize, at least for the moment, new spending items has caused a crossover of accusations between the two economic areas of the Executive.
The objective of the second vice presidency was to stop the “total†strike called between June 26 and 30 by the inspectors and, if possible, to do so before the elections next Sunday. They had been negotiating for a year and a half. However, sources from the Ministry of Labor expressed their discomfort over the stoppage by the Treasury of the measures already advanced. They added that DÃaz’s team had no choice but to convey to the unions, in a meeting, the impossibility of advancing on the agreement due to the blockade of the ministry in charge of authorizing spending. They also regretted that the Civil Service does not give the go-ahead to expanding the workforce when it comes to a commitment included in the body’s strategy approved by the Council of Ministers. This refusal has caused a “deep discomfort” in Labor, they insisted.
Other sources of the negotiation commented that they do not observe any budgetary or technical problem to give the go-ahead to the negotiated claims. They attribute, therefore, the stoppage to a “political” decision, since the no from the Treasury contrasts with the extraordinary items that have been authorized to unblock the labor dispute in which other ministries have been involved in recent weeks. by the PSOE: the salary agreement with judges and prosecutors that affected Justice and the pact with Social Security inspectors that solved the department of José Luis Escrivá. These sources wondered why conflicts are resolved on one side of the coalition and not on the other, in reference to Labour.
Sources from the Treasury and Public Function offered, for their part, another version of the dispute with the Ministry of Labor. From the department of MarÃa Jesús Montero they assured that the internal negotiation in the Government is still open “with the aim of expanding the number of troops of the Labor inspection to reinforce its important work.” They recall that they already authorized an increase of 781 troops for Labor inspectors and sub-inspectors, that weeks ago an economic item of six million was agreed to increase the variable part corresponding to the productivity of employees, and that it is added to the salary improvement of the public function, and that the job offer places have doubled in the last call.
The union organizations argued that the previous list of jobs dates back more than 20 years, so it is necessary to immediately incorporate the 500 people who had been urgently promised in the negotiations to the workforce.
