The proprietor of Sargadelos admits quite a few irregularities within the Lugo manufacturing facility and decrees per week of trip | Economy | EUROtoday

From the early morning, some 70 employees of the Sargadelos ceramic manufacturing facility are concentrated on the entrance of the Cervo Plant (Lugo) with out having the ability to entry, yet another day, to their job. The pulse between Segismundo García, proprietor of the corporate, and the Labor Inspection that since Wednesday maintains the manufacturing facility, enters the swampy terrain. This Friday, in an announcement despatched by the businessman to El País, he insists, as he did in current days, in vetoing the entry of the workers to the manufacturing plant “until the deficiencies are sub -senses” detected by the labor authority, which requires amongst different issues that workers use masks and protecting tools after the analysis of a silicosis case and the examine of a attainable second case on account of publicity to crystalline silica, a most cancers substance.

The Cervo Factory (Lugo) was paralyzed by enterprise resolution after the agency was multiplied with 5,000 euros and urged to appropriate 36 deficiencies that, in response to sources from the Ministry, wouldn’t require a closure, however of the variation of the amenities and the availability of satisfactory safety tools. On the opposite hand, the businessman, in phone dialog, says he’s “fed up” of inspections and has opted for a frontal conflict with the administration of unsure end result. Garcia, who claims to be “very good manager” and presumes to have raised the model “from scratch, without being an heir”, believes that the answer is to not put safety measures as a result of day by day dozens of individuals go to the amenities, thought-about properly of cultural curiosity. “The interesting thing is to see the factory, the artisanal process. Am I going to put epis and masks to the 40 people who arrive here every day?”

Its technique is so as to add firewood to the hearth. In an uncommon assertion, he speaks of different “taras or infractions that, either by negligence or maybe, the famous curator [en referencia a la inspectora de trabajo] He did not detect. ”From there he explains that the issue cowl is uralite,“ and it is possible that the presence of asbestos can also end up deteriorating our health. ”The cooking ovens abound, work“ at very high temperatures without the employees in charge of having fireproof costumes, or the rooms where they are conveniently marked and isolated ”. In addition “sliding tile, which can cause slips, fractures and accidents of all kinds.”

The businessman provides different minor particulars, similar to computer systems lack “adequate cover -ups, so administrative staff is exposed to ocular fatigue and possible cognitive and emotional disorders” or that, missing air con, “in the winter months it is very cold and heat in summer”. The chairs of the manufacturing facility, “old and worn”, don’t present the “minimum ergonomic comfort required to prevent possible lumbar pains or vertebral trauma.” It additionally assumes that the doorways and home windows “do not comply with the current regulations”, or that the entry catwalks to the vegetation “are made of wood, and in case of fire, would not allow proper evacuation.” The rosary of irregularities continues within the Pasta Manufacturing Department, the place water evacuation techniques “take time to drain and there is always water on the ground, as well as excess decibels due to the noise of the mixing drums.” “Being the factory in a BIC building (cultural interest) it is impossible to adapt an evacuation plan to current regulations, with the consequent danger in case of serious contingency.”

Regarding the administration, the assertion warns that managers “work much more than 40 hours per week without billing extra hours” and that typically, outdoors work schedule, “call on the phone to be interested in labor matters.” For all this “as long as the deficiencies are not resolved or we are not indicated by competent authority, reliably, the way to follow, is set next week as a holiday period at the Sargadelos production plant (Cervo).”

From the CIG union, his secretary in A Mariña, Xorxe Caldeiro, qualifies him as a “employer closure” and recollects that if the inspection had detected a severe or imminent threat to the well being of the workers, he would have acted closing the manufacturing facility. Instead, he describes the proprietor’s technique as “intimidator.” So far the corporate has not communicated dismissals or has introduced any employment regulation file. For his half, José Antonio Zan, answerable for the CC OO business space, provides that the corporate has supplied workers to return to work subsequent week “under their responsibility”, one thing surprising when it’s the firm that should assure prevention measures. On the likelihood that they go on trip, Zan considers that the unilateral demand on the a part of the corporate is just not legitimate.

In Sargadelos 242 individuals work, 80% ladies, however they don’t have an organization committee or union delegates as a result of nobody appeared within the final elections. Trade union sources imagine that years of strain have pressured the workforce to this example of labor overflow, though there is no such thing as a criticism of coercion by the administration. Lacking Sargadelos delegates doesn’t have well being and security committee, which is answerable for consulting and evaluating the corporate’s actions on occupational threat prevention.

In the thread of the assertion, the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has requested an pressing assembly with the path of the Sargadelos Group, “given the transcendence of business decisions adopted in the last hours at the Cervo plant, with the closure of one of the emblematic economic and cultural spaces of Galicia and one of the centenary pillars of its cultural heritage.” The ministry ensures that the choice is made “for the importance of the facts that directly and subsidiarily affect many people in Galicia.” From the Traballo Department of the Xunta de Galicia, they confer with the statements of the Minister José González, who yesterday referred to as for calm stating that the deficiencies discovered “are rectifiable and are in the deadline to fix.”

The group, in 93% within the fingers of Segismundo García, is shaped by the Ceramic Factory of Castro, Sargadelos Ceramic Factory and Porcelain of Sargadelos. In 2014, after the presentation of the Creditors Contest by the earlier Directorate, the employer was in cost and lately he has billed between 12 and 14 million euros, with advantages.