Merche Rodríguez has been working at the same school in Barcelona for 12 years. The Department of Education hired her to provide classroom support with three-year-old schoolchildren. "They valued the experience and had been in a nursery for 19 years," he explains. Now he fears becoming unemployed after remaining tied to the same temporary contract since 2007. He has never been able to strengthen the position, although it must be offered within three years since a public administration covers it on a provisional basis. The law dictates it, but it has been generalized to eternalize the interim, without the right to promote themselves or to receive compensation from being dismissed.
«They know that we are in law fraud», thinks Merche, one of the almost 900 technical specialists in early childhood education in Catalonia, mostly women and all interns. They claim that the counseling paralyze the tests he will announce in April: 756 places that they now occupy with other applicants would have to be disputed. They ask that their prime trajectory and that, in any case, the workforce be extended and not relieved at an age when they find it difficult to relocate. «I am 50 years old, my parents are older, I have children, a mortgage ... I do not have time to study, but I do not want to be given anything, but to keep in mind that we have a strip of years. A girl who has just finished studying will get a better grade than me in a memorial exam but she doesn't have my experience, ”Merche distinguishes.
The restlessness has been spread among the interim, called to manifest this Saturday in Madrid. Nearly 3,000 interim workers in the public sector have responded to the call of the summoners to protest against precariousness, hiring fraud and the abuse of temporality, which affects some 800,000 people throughout Spain.
Public sector workers from all over Spain, who sometimes chain 300 contracts in a year , have traveled the Madrid Gran Vía to the shout of "! Fijeza Ya!", To denounce the "free and free" collective dismissal of temporary workers from Public administrations
They have also charged against the absence of inspections to detect fraud, illegality and abuse, as well as for the lack of an effective national standard that prevents the abuse of temporality, sanctions the public employer and eliminates the consequences on the worker with his stabilization or compensation.
The agreement of the Government of the PP in 2018 with UGT, CCOO and CSIF to defrost the public offer predicted to reduce the interinity to 8%; However, he sees failure and has also irritated employees organized on platforms. It brings together the claim of being stabilized without having to compete for the position, but endorsed by the processes they passed to enter the administration and the years of service they accumulate. In Catalonia, they have appealed to the courts: among them, 173 places of social workers of the Generalitat and, shortly, 760 of the upper body of the administration.
Other offers - such as that of the Diputación de Barcelona, with 239 jobs - are on hold until the EU Court of Justice decides on whether to raise those who do not follow the temporary label. At the end of 2019, 905,300 were registered in the Spanish administrations, 27.8% of the staff, two points above the private sector; in Catalonia, they added 105,000, 24%, 4% more than in the company.
Faced with fear of being dismissed, the Generalitat alleges that it will assess the background in the selection processes, while the Diputación explains that a commission will define criteria for consolidating interim. "The only real consolidation is the merits route and the best is the fixity, because they are already fixed that do the same as them", defends Pau Albert Martí, lawyer who advises the Interim Platform of Catalonia.
Yolanda Camacho is a social integration technique in a Badalona school where she has been dealing with absenteeism for 14 years. So much time has helped him strengthen confidence with families and students to mitigate the scourge. The Generalitat prepares oppositions for 73 places in the category; still undated, it is known that they will cover 17 subjects that Yolanda studies: «Mine goes out to the contest, I have to present myself yes or yes. If I suspend, my merits do not work and I would go to the bag of substitutions, but I am the tenth or twelfth in the list. I would lose my three years and go to unemployment.
Mercè Salas has been serving in dining rooms and laundries for residences for 28 years, always as temporary staff of the Generalitat. There are few in Catalonia who, like her, are awaiting sentencing after coming to trial to be declared fixed. «I'm tired of being teased and afraid. The waitresses-cleaners have been silent because there has always been the threat of our work being outsourced, ”says Mercè, who has not been able to aspire to serve as a caregiver despite having the title:“ You look encapsulated. And where am I going with 55 years?
"We have been second and slightly more submissive officials, for not being able to compete to change and have to accept any situation because of the supposed fear of losing work," reflects an employee of the Catalan councils, with 31% interim in 2018 «It is essentially a political problem, for doing nothing and letting time pass. It has no cost to make us fixed, but to throw ourselves, because we will win in the courts, ”he predicts.
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