Madrid Dawns Bags, cartoons and a growing smell. The indefinite strike of the garbage has transformed several paths of the capital into an unusual and chaotic scenario, in which the protest of the work is mixed with the concern of citizens and the institutional pressure. While the pulse between workers, companies and city council is intensified, the city pays the price of an Enquistado conflict that threatens to prolong and that could control the image and health of capital.
“We just crossed the prince of Vergara, in the Plaza De Catiluña, and has a smell of fish,” says Carmen, a Madrid who was going to work.
Build conflict
This conflict broke out afterTo the breakdown of the conversations between the unions and the companies to concession of the subcontracting service by the city of Madrid. The trigger is due to the requirement by the workforce to recover the purchasing power lost in the last five years of wage freezing, which encrypted in 12.5%.
The pre -gricolo presented by the employer, which included an insufficient increase in salary of the workers’ opinion, was strongly rejected: More than 900 votes against only 200 in favor.
From the Union Professional sector RSU (Urban Solid Waste), majority in the workforce, insist on the fact that the company offers It is “very remote” from its needs, Both economic and social conditions. “The main request they have not respected is recover all the money we have lost“, Underlines Jaime Delgado, a spokesman for the Union. You also consider improvements in Transparency of promotions and the Creation of a employment bag with objective criteriaas well as the rEconomic economic For other shifts, in addition to the day.
For its part, The dealerships remain still in their position And they accuse the unions of not having lowered their statements enough, even if they admit that the economic differences are “very small”. The City Council, led by José Luis Martínez-Almeida, decreed the minimum services of 50% to avoid health problems, but both citizens and employers claim not to respect themselves and the deputy alkaldesa Inma Sanz has already said that if they have not met there will be penalties for the companies involved.
What do citizens say?
Citizenship is not clear to those who emphasize Among the sides in the competition. Alejandro, a 28 -year -old boy defends the position of unionists who only try to improve that bad agreement.
“Clearly, If a worker is poorly paid and has a bad agreement, then he will not want to work. Without workers there are no services and if there are no services, then there is an accumulation, “he says.
Most, yes, it supports it It cannot be that the Madrid City Council allows this dispute to influence the health and hygiene of citizens. As, for example, a young woman named Hilda, who considers that responsible people should guarantee at least to cover those minimal services, since in the end it is a question of health, coexistence and that she cannot allow him to accumulate in this way.
In the meantime, eThe discontent of the population grows at the rhythm that the waste accumulates on public roads.
“A fucking shit. Hoy I had to collect cubes from my house and I didn’t see what they weigh Because they did not leave the balls, collecting the garbage today, “says Juan, vice -president of his neighborhood community in a building in Avenida de América.
Others, like Rodolfo, say that under its point of view All this conflict is “managed very badly”Because seeing only many houses with garbage cubes full of overflowing bags and garbage and that this has a difficult solution.
This situation contrasts more if compared to the areas adjacent to the city of Madrid, Since many of them likes Alberto, Resident in the peripheral district of Mirasierrathey say itThey are discovered by the existence of this controversy, since In his area he has not noticed anything different from the other days. The same goes for other municipalities in the Madrid community such as San sebastián de los reyeswhere Hilda expresses it there “Everything is quite clean. “
An growing conflict just like temperatures
The arrival of the good weather had a hot reception in most of Spainwhich can’t wait to fill the terraces and to exploit the sun as much as possible. But in the capital this can be an aggravating circumstance for this delicate clash, Since the heat accelerates the biological processes responsible for the decomposition of organic waste and waste water, releasing both atmospheric pollutants and greenhouse gas.
“I guess Since this good moment will be a horror. I wish they will soon reach an agreement because this is a blackmail that has captured us all, “says Carmen.
Also, he claims that it is a shame because Madrid is a city that takes care and is quite clean In general, what contrast Completely according to your perspective With the image of the capital.
While The garbage continues to accumulate and the tension grows in the roadsMadrid faces a crossroads that goes beyond simple urban cleaning: the resolution of this conflict will mark not only the future work of thousands of workers, but also the trust of citizens in the ability of their institutions to manage the daily crisis.
