Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Industry, Services, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Union (SISCAP) today denounced what it considers to be “abuses and violations of labor standards”, which call into question the principles and rights of Sonerf workers.
In a press conference, held in front of the facilities of the National Society of Rural and Forestry Engineering (Sonerf), in Achada São Filipe, in the city of Praia, the vice-president, Francisco Furtado, accused the president of the institution and the Minister of Agriculture and Environment of violating a set of norms and acquired rights of workers.
This, according to him, is an opportune moment for workers to express their feelings of sadness and discontent and repudiate the inertia of those responsible, in the face of a total lack of information requested, on the part of employees and the union representative, in relation to the resolution of labor claims.
Among the demands are the delay in payment of salary, failure to publish and implement the Jobs, Careers and Salary Plan (PCCS) or Career, Functions and Remuneration Plan (PCFR), delay in sending discounts to the National Institute of Social Prevention , a situation that has created some constraints for them.
“The failure to comply with administrative procedures on the part of the ministry, given the lack of response to a note sent by SISCAP in January this year, requesting the necessary information on the economic sustainability of the company and the existence or not of a negotiation process, a merger between Sonerf and Água de Rega and/or extension of Sonerf, following some rumors that have been circulating among workers”, he pointed out.
Francisco Furtado said that faced with this possibility, the union demands that the pending issues be immediately regulated, given that “the situation is particularly difficult and the workers no longer believe in the president and the minister”.
As he explained, the process of implementing the PCCS and the company’s statutes are dossiers that are still on the back burner, a situation that has led workers to face enormous financial difficulties as the situation has been going on since 2017.
The union leader does not rule out the possibility of moving on to other forms of struggle if the situation is not resolved.
Representing the workers, José Eduardo Tavares said that employees feel “discriminated and unmotivated” with the current situation of the company and the “violations committed by the president”.
“Right now, our hands are tied. We haven’t received our salary for a month and 19 days and no one tells us anything and we don’t even know when we will receive it, in the meantime we are all heads of families with children in daycare centers and schools with responsibilities to fulfill at the end of each month at the bank”, he said.
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