Hospital cleaners union denounces employer

    The CSI-CSIF trades union which represents the workers contracted to clean in the Huercal Overa hospital has condemned Eurolimp, their employer, for its treatment of its workers. Eurolimp, the company sub-contracted by the hospital, has yet to honour the agreement reached last year in the revision of the cleaners' salaries. After several months trying to get the company to pay the increase it had agreed to the union initiated proceedings which resulted in the case being taken to arbitration before the Extrajudicial Service for the Resolution of Labour Conflicts in Almeria, however the company did not attend the scheduled hearing.

    According to the workers' union this was simply another strategy on the part of Eurolimp to delay paying the workers as now the matter will have to go before the courts. The CSI-CSIF commented that the whole situation has arisen as result of a strategy deployed by Ferrovial, the mother company of Eurolimp, to compensate for losses made due to the crisis in the construction industry.