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Councilor Juan Vicente Larrosa reports that the Ministry of Education has decided to take advantage of a new agreement in which small and medium-sized Murcian companies in the sector are left out, so that "the uncertainty around the sector increases.
It is necessary to extend the current contracts " The loss of travelers and the decisions that are being made by the regional and local administrations are making transport companies on the brink of disappearance in Murcia.
The socialist councilor Juan Vicente Larrosa presents a motion to the next plenary session to try to reverse this situation. "The lack of public transport is now joined by the unilateral decision of the Ministry of Education to sign a new agreement for the modification of school routes that can make the vast majority of Murcian companies dedicated to transport disappear.
Too bad was already the transport sector in our municipality as to now add this addition ", protests the mayor. "Until the beginning of this course, the school transport companies saw their activity practically paralyzed, with the economic consequences that this has for hundreds of Murcian families that depend on the sector.
To this is added that the Ministry of Education and Culture has decided, Without prior dialogue with the affected companies, not to extend the current contracts of the school routes, having the possibility to do so.
Instead, it has decided to benefit from a new framework agreement that aims to unify school routes in four large areas, making it difficult for small and medium-sized Murcian companies in the sector can participate in the bidding process "explains the Socialist councilor. Larrosa does not approve this decision and warns that the rejection of this measure is not only his, but that "the employers and the unions in the sector have already expressed their open disapproval.
How are they going to approve it if with it they endanger the survival of the 67 companies that currently provide the service and employ more than a thousand workers? " Larrosa questions. "With all the right, the companies have requested the precautionary stoppage and the withdrawal of the new agreement, not only because they consider it sudden and unnecessary considering that we are still in the middle of a pandemic, but also because of the decrease in prices that in this one are included, which could mean drops of up to 30% in relation to the current agreement when submitting offers, which would lead to significant job destruction "denounces the Socialist councilor. "With this measure, the Regional Government is causing an added uncertainty to the one that, in itself, generates the current situation for Murcian companies and their workers, who have been providing these services with full diligence and with a spirit of collaboration that, in times difficult as we live, have once again demonstrated more than enough, "argues Juan Vicente Larrosa, who again insists on the" untimely speed of the decision.
Given the circumstances, having extended the agreement would help maintain employment in the Region, something totally necessary in the circumstances in which we unfortunately find ourselves.
" For all these reasons, Juan Vicente Larrosa presents a motion in full in which "I ask Ballesta and his team to take charge of the serious situation in which the sector finds itself and stop looking at flowers and cameras.
Your neighbors and neighbors need me to measure up and do everything possible to extend the current agreement while negotiating a new one so that the 67 companies and SMEs in this sector do not disappear and their workers are not doomed to unemployment, "demands Larrosa.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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