Collapse at ITV resulted in explosion Numerous workers’ protests in the Valencian Community and to demand better in Alicante conditions for template and to guarantee quality public service. At main stations, the appointment density exceeds two months.
CCOO and UGT called for a rally from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. over the Valencian Government’s failure to comply with its commitment to pay additional payments in January. salary homogenization He made an agreement with the Sitval company, which has been managing the vehicle technical inspection service for a year.
Mobilization is planned in the provincial capital At Conselleria headquarters on February 20 (Plaza Gabriel Miró 7). The rest of the concentrations will take place in Valencia from this Friday until 21 February.
Problems
It was a public company that had been running these businesses for about a year. Vehicle Technical Inspection stations (ITV) in the Valencian Community following the withdrawal by the Generalitat at the end of February 2023.
The biggest problem, as the Workers’ Commissions point out, is that not all stations have the necessary equipment. staff is needed and that hiring workers for public companies is much more complicated than for private companies. In addition, the same union sources state: public company Sitval, When he took the reins of the service, he found himself with a large number of temporary staff and found that the majority of the employees were not, although they should have been permanent staff, and eventually ended up on the streets.
Also, as CC OO added to this newspaper, the usual before this stage was to reinforce staff with more clients and work a lot of overtime during seasons such as Christmas or summer.
The union confirmed that Sitval had made an offer to them. new job board proposalbut it was not released because it had to pass minimum checks, a filter that is not required in a private company.
It was claimed that the Ministry of Industry was working on this issue. Recruitment of personnelEspecially in the five lines they want to strengthen in the five municipalities of the province, apart from the temporary reinforcements made in June but not at Christmas.
Staff reduction
Mechanical workshops, the most frequent customers of ITV stations, also noticed: staff reduction.
«Before the service reversal we found ourselves with three people working on the same line. “The person who now has to do the full inspection in many cases is very slow,” complained a workshop in Elche, which claimed that it had stopped going to the city station for months and resorted to resorting to Murcia because there are more facilities.