The parliamentary group Adelante Andalucía plans to ask a question in committee next Thursday, October 15, to the first vice president and counselor of the Presidency, Health and Emergencies, Antonio Sanz (PP-A), focused on the possible integration into the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) of the staff responsible for managing emergency phone calls.
This was advanced this Thursday by Adelante Andalucía in a press release, on the occasion of a meeting held by the deputy Javier Montes with delegates from the CSIF union representing the telephone managers of emergencies and emergencies, "frontline workers of the health service who, despite this, are subcontracted by the company Ilunion," according to what they have stated from Adelante.
The workers "have conveyed to the deputy of Adelante Andalucía the precarious working conditions in which they find themselves," and have claimed their "inclusion within the SAS," as detailed by the same formation.
In this line, Adelante has indicated that the group reports being subjected to telemarketing agreements that "do not reflect the responsibility, qualification, and emotional burden inherent to this work."
"It is not understood that those who are on the front line of attention to our extrahospital emergencies are in a coordination room where the rest of the staff is public; it is not understood that they are workers of a private company, a multinational like Ilunion, that exploits and precarizes them," criticized Javier Montes.
Adelante Andalucía has demanded that the incorporation of this staff into the SAS be accelerated at a time considered "very favorable for this," recalling that the Junta "is currently working on a decree that is in the negotiation phase, which will regulate the health care of extrahospital emergencies and the integration of 061 and the SUAP, a situation that the telephone managers want to take advantage of."
From Adelante, they have also explained that the contract with Ilunion ends in April 2027, with the possibility of a one-year extension, an action that the workers "want to avoid."
Among their demands are "the elimination of contractual limitations that prevent access to full-time positions, the increase of the workforce, and the creation of a specific professional category in accordance with the functions they actually perform."
All of this, they argue, goes through recognizing that their work is "an essential function within the public health system of emergencies and urgent care." "We do not understand how it can be that they have the telemarketing agreement, that they have some ridiculous night and holiday bonuses, and that for 20 years the company has been making part-time hires to have them at their complete disposal for when they need to cover a sick leave," Montes has stated.
"From Adelante Andalucía we support their claim that they be integrated personnel in the SAS, and we are going to bring this issue to the Health Commission next week to ask the counselor, and for him to respond to us if he intends to integrate them as public personnel," Javier Montes has concluded.