The cleaners of Les Corts Valencianes, the same ones who have been without pay for five months, and some of them going to caritas to be able to eat, now have a contract. This Wednesday the Valencian parliament has signed an emergency contract with the Sociedad de Agricultores de la Vega (SAV) that will take care of the workers and the five-month delays in the collection of salaries.
On the part of the workers, the group manager María Martínez explained that “they have committed to us that we are not going to lose our rights, that we enter with the same conditions that we are in until now.” And they have also committed to that they are going to catch up on the five months that they owe us, that they owe us, that they are going to make it to us even in one payment, in a single payment,” he explained.
“This time has been hell, it has been chaotic. We have gone through very, very, very bad times. In fact, yesterday, when they told us the news, my classmates and I jumped for joy. I mean, what they are going to do to us “Giving is what really belongs to us. We are down, we are demoralized, we are unmotivated. I think now we have to pull ourselves together and the only thing we want is to get back to normal, work and get paid every month and for this to not happen again,” he said. indicated.
In fact, he has assured that they have been informed that there will be monthly monitoring of the new company. “At least, let it serve as a precedent so that it doesn’t happen again because we are afraid. Now we are afraid,” Martínez explained.
“We lawyers know that they have done everything possible, but there have been many obstacles to solve. What we keep saying is that something has failed here and it has to be something that the Valencian government would have to fix. They have told us that it is at the state level , but we have felt completely unprotected and what we want is for them to pass some law or some reform of the law so that, if this happens again, it will be solved from one day to the next and they will not have us five months like we have been without collecting our wages,” Martínez said.
Martínez has denounced that “Grupo Scorpio – the concessionaire company – has disappeared.” “We don’t know where it is, it has left us completely abandoned. The process has also taken so long because we have not been able to get hold of the company, neither the workers nor the lawyers, and then everything that the incoming company asked for in terms of documentation, debt that It is owed to Social Security, since they have had to ask for it because we have not had any help from the Scorpio group company,” he detailed.
