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Taking advantage of this new high-season tourism in our town, UPyD Cartagena want to show that although the constitution in 2000 the Consortium Cartagena Port of Cultures and the subsequent establishment in June 2001 of a private company with public capital ( Cartagena Port of Cultures SA) contributed positively to a significant improvement of tourism in the city as well as the increase of visitors to it, it is equally true that over the years that progress has always occurred to the detriment of working conditions of workers in the company.

And it is paradoxical that neither the performance, year after year, sales targets and fertilizer inputs by the workforce, and the exponential growth in visitor numbers over the last decade, and the consequent and significant increase revenues in the company, has affected in some way in improving the precarious working conditions of workers.

Poor working conditions found as a mainstay the absence of a collective agreement adapted to the labor peculiarities of this group of professionals and a contractual tinkering characterized mainly for not recognizing the real professional category of the employee, as most are hired as assistants administrative;

not reflect the true academic level, since the vast majority of the contracts stipulate that the employee is only in possession of basic studies, when in fact it's graduates, senior technicians and other top-level academic qualifications;

treated and often temporary contracts, whose real purpose was to fire and rehire year after year, often exceeding the legally established, leaving injured in a difficult situation of job insecurity.

To UPyD Cartagena seems clear that the employment situation of the group of guides and shop assistants Cartagena Port of Cultures SA has been typical of any company of very low social profile, with an eye only on the lower costs of staff , it has almost completely neglected the situation of professionals who for over a decade have done an excellent job, as shown by the results of satisfaction surveys, which show that the staff and their attention are generally better aspects valued by tourists who visit the centers and tourist transport in charge of the company.

It is for these reasons that UPyD Cartagena urges the current municipal government to be directly involved in improving the working conditions of the workforce and unlock the negotiations for the creation of a collective agreement which the management company has refused outright and repeatedly to develop or even to negotiate with the union representatives of the group.

Source: UPyD Cartagena