The union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has gone after “the executive management of Correos” for an action that it describes as “shameful,” considering that the company is “using the minimum services to limit” the “right” to take part in the general strike called for this Wednesday and “prioritizing production.”
The union organization denounces that “more than 16,000 designations for minimum services” have been set, which is equivalent to “about 35% of the workforce,” and argues that they have been applied “with tricks to inflate them, discriminatory selection criteria, and assignments that exceed the legally protected electoral tasks,” as it details in a statement.
For CCOO, that level of staff required to work represents “an extraordinary volume for a one-day strike” called 18 days before the general elections of next November 29, elections which, in its view, “seek to use” to “prioritize ordinary postal activity and empty of content the fundamental right to strike.”
The union emphasizes that “it does not question the obligation to guarantee the exercise of the right to vote,” but it does challenge the use of the electoral call to “impose minimum services” that it calls “disproportionate,” with the goal of “carrying out activities that are not covered by their electoral purpose.”
Given suspicions that the “calculations used” to set the minimum services have been “inflated,” CCOO calls for them to be made public and denounces that “personnel is being incorporated, including references to workers who are not active, false reinforcements, vacant delivery sections, or staffing levels that do not correspond to the real staff available.”
At the same time, the organization demands the “immediate rectification” by the management of the public company and advances that it is compiling data and documentation about “the inflated estimates, the irregular designations, the changes in instructions, and the assignment of non-electoral tasks” in order to “reinforce the appeal before the National Court (Audiencia Nacional) against the abusive minimum services of 11N” and “support additional actions against their corporate application.”