1,000 more public jobs to manage the new ITV in the Valencian Community

One of the great political proposals of the Government of

with

and

, is to recover the public management of privatized services.

The first step was taken with the hospitals, Alzira and Torrevieja, and on December 31, 2022 it is the turn of the

service (ITV), which has been provided under a concession regime for 25 years.

They only have the direct management model

and

, which has opened the door to privatization in the last legislature.

The Valencian Community will therefore follow the opposite path.

It has already approved the creation of an instrumental public company, the

, which will bring together 1,016 workers from the current 25 stations, who will become Administration

to later undergo an adjustment that will include early retirement, retraining and the possibility of termination of contracts.

The budget of this company, which will hire a manager and two administrative staff, will start at 756,000 euros, which will translate into operating results after the first year of 39 million euros.

Faced with these data, collected in a report commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, the concessionaires rebel, grouped in the

association , they describe them as "inaccurate, biased and far from reality".

The reversion, directed from the department in the hands of Compromís, is based on the stage of the Nuve Consulting consultancy that guarantees the viability of the service and that, in the opinion of

, former president and member of Aecova, "does not fit the reality because it is riddled with errors, delusions, inaccuracies and falsehoods".

"We are facing an ideological decision that has no technical, economic or quality justification. They can carry out the reversal, but based on reality, not on a tailored suit," he explains to El Mundo.

They intend to prove this reality in the expert reports to which each of the seven companies will submit, analyzing everything from

to energy costs.

"Only in the salary calculations that they have made there is

, because they calculate that the average cost of a full-time worker is 27,380 euros per year when it reaches 44,451. In addition, each company has its collective agreement, which they will have to equate having the same employer, with the labor conflict and the repercussion on the costs that it may have, which the commissioned report itself estimates between 25 and 45% more", warns the owner of Technical Quality Assurance, which manages six stations.

in an adjusted manner

.

"They foresee 160,000 euros for the 25 stations when 250,000 euros are already generated in my six alone. "Those almost 40 million operations would be reduced to 11 only with these adjustments, which are not the only ones to adapt it to reality and that will not allow make investments as they intend," adds Trigo.

Claim of 133 million

The concessionaires remember that they already faced "myths" regarding their benefits and their overbilling in 2015 that were "dismantled by the Audit Office in July 2017" and that carry the image of being a service that was privatized by former President

and that is the object of investigation in the Erial case.

"We are not Zaplana nor do we have anything to do with his friends or with what he went through 25 years ago," Trigo explained.

The president of Aecova-ITV, Paco Llopis, together with the member and former president Manuel Trigo.EM

These audits will also serve as the basis for claiming 133 million plus interest that they understand the Administration owes them.

In the courts, two concessionaires have already won the lawsuits against the Generalitat for the

applied in 2014 and 2019, annulled by the Supreme Court, but the TSJ ruled out that they had the right to be compensated for this.

Appealed to the High Court this decision, they will initiate a new way in the Litigation to obtain that compensation while they will seek the continuity of the service "in the absence of response from the Administration."

This is how they will let you know at a meeting this Wednesday, after two months of waiting, with the Minister of Economy,

.

On the one hand, they are suing against the refusal to extend the service, communicated a year ago, and they will do so against the reversal, but they are also going to demand that Decree Law 8/2020 be applied to them to extend their concessions during the time in which the pandemic paralyzed the administrative deadlines and, in addition, they claim their

for lost profit.

"It could be that each station lost millions of euros in those months that they will no longer be able to recover because they end the contract," warns Trigo who, without wanting to determine an amount, estimates that the loss of each company could be between 1.5 and 5 million euros.

They have already done it before the Administration, which does not respond, and they will begin a long dispute that can last "from three to six years."

"What we want to demonstrate is that we are adequate to provide the service with quality and that only the citizen who has a cost pays it, not all," argued Trigo.

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