Adrián Román, a cleaning employee since the age of 18, has become a paradigm of the damage that the last labor reform can generate.
31 -year -old Barrendero, married and with three minor children;A newborn and two children aged 4 and 11, has been fired by the union of companies awarded the waste collection and cleaning contract of the city, for accumulating fourteen days of low in two months.
An absence necessary to treat chronic diabetes that he suffers and threatens to leave him blind.
The sweeper has been for ten days - mañana, afternoon and night - in front, in front of the door of the Alicante City Council, governed by Guanyar, Compromís and the PSPV, to denounce their situation.And there he will continue, he has assured El País, "as a Spartan" until he is given "a solution."
The municipal contract receives a rain of millions of euros every year (435 in twelve exercises) of the municipal coffers for providing the cleaning service.
In that confluence of societies he plays an inusa leading role, owned by Enrique Ortiz, prosecuted for handling his will, supposedly, the urbanism of the city with the help of the former PP mayor, Luis Díaz Alperi and Sonia Castedo.The Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office has requested 17 years in jail for rigging the Barbing Collection Contract of La Vega Baja, all in the framework of the Brugal case.
The clinical history of the sweeper leaves no doubt.He suffers an "advanced diabetic retinopathy" that forces him to receive intraocular injections from time to time in both eyes so as not to lose his sight and have caused continuous visits to doctors.In November he underwent complex surgery, a vitrectomy.The operation occurred on November 23, just five days after the mercantile finished a 11 -year employment relationship with 14,700 euros of compensation.
To these surgical interventions, to that treatment, the losses of six and eight days that the sweeper took in March and April of last year, respectively, and that their bosses have alleged to apply a dismissal for objective causes.Those fourteen days of absence were consigned as "common disease" due to their low duration, not as a convalescence by a long -term disease, which has allowed the UTE to win the service of a much discussed article of the latest labor reform.
Román spent his first night in front of the town hall on January 3.Then he set up a tent, but removed it for fear that they could steal or break it."The night of Kings was terrible because of the gentuza that passed by party here," he says.You can barely reconcile sleep.A folding chair and a banner now make up the 'daring' of its protest."One night they stole to dinner," says Manolo Martínez, member of the UTE Company Committee and spokesman for the Public Employee Union (SEP), to which the worker belongs.
Román has the support of many colleagues who spend daily through the square of the town hall to visit him."If it weren't for your support, I wouldn't be here," he says, grateful.His family panorama is hopeless.His wife does not work because he is dedicated to the care of the girl who both have had and the other minor children of the couple, but every day he spends to see him to instill.
The sweeper faces on January 25 an act of conciliation prior to the judicial process for the end of his contract.The SEPs spokesman points out that the contract will reach an agreement with the former ex -worker thanks, among other things, to the intervention of the mayor, the socialist Gabriel Echávarri, whom they addressed in the town hall square days ago to expose the situation."There will not be in the end or winners or defeated.
A solution will be reached ",The unionist predicts.The affected, on the other hand, does not have them all with them.He is skeptical, but at the same time he warns that he will not move from his current site: "I just want them to help me. I will not give up. I will continue here, like a Spartan."
