
PSOE and ZEC denounce another “attack” to young areas and the Chueca government defends its model
The municipal groups of PSOE and Zaragoza in common have criticized a new attack by the Government of Natalia Chueca to the youth policies of Saragossa and, specifically, to the projects to integrate Piees school spaces (young school zones). The councilors Paco Galán and Suso Domínguez, accompanied by workers in the sector, have demanded that the quality of the service of a pioneering project for more than 30 years such as the Young School Zones are guaranteed.
The formations ask to guarantee the quality and service of these projects that are developed in 23 secondary education institutes, in addition to the six centers of early and primary education and three special education centers in Zaragoza. In addition, they request that in the process be watched by the working conditions of the professionals that guarantee the provision of this educational alternative of leisure and free time for children and young people in the city.
As the workers’ own representatives, the Zaragoza City Council He would have contacted the current managing companies to communicate that on September 1 the new conditions of the specifications begin to be applied, including the hourly modification of the workers who reduce their day between 25% and 30%.
The Socialist Councilor Paco Galán has censored the “agency” of the new threat of the Government of Natalia Chueca towards youth policies, which in recent years are defined by three issues: the precariousness in each of the specifications and services, the reduction of public services and the lack of ideas to transform the city. “Last year, at this time, we had the threat of the closure of the young area of the Oliver neighborhood or the clause of emblematic projects such as the insomnic night. Now, we echo what is happening in young school areas,” he said.
Galán has recalled that these sheets have been tendered on two occasions and even “two occasions have been deserted.” “On this occasion not only by economic but social conditions,” he said. “What they are evidencing is that the activities of the new specifications are not attractive to the managers or for the workers’ teams, which are limited their working conditions. And evidence the lack of listening, the deaf ears of what the citizens need in the area of youth,” the socialist mayor has recriminated.
In fact, he has referred to other situations, such as the one that is also being lived with childhood and adolescence. “Barely two months ago more than 3,000 signatures of the families complaining about the services of CTLS and Ludoteca were presented. What is reduced are not working conditions: they are the conditions to provide a public service,” he said. But he also recalled that “reopening”, because they had been working for 15 years, emblematic sites such as the tunnel. “A year later they still have the necessary resources.‘ Reopens ’a door and there are no professionals behind,” he has censored.
Lack of rigor and quality
In that sense, he has emphasized the “lack of ideas” of youth services in these last two years, “or if we extend it six”, not starting a single new service in the youth area. “All projects are valid for 20 to 30 years. There is nothing innovative and transformative,” he said. “The only thing that has been on the table is the lack of rigor and quality. The complaint by the workers through strike and strikes, which what it does is show the lack of ideas by the city government,” he added.
But while there are no ideas in the Youth area, there has been, as Galán highlighted, two threats of strike and stoppages in the services, as well as the complaint by the workers of all contracts before the Tacpa. “While there is no irregularity, it shows that the precariousness of services affects their quality: less hours, less activities, less projects to promote non -formal education among our young people,” he denounced.
The councilor of Zaragoza in common, Suso Domínguez has assured that “they will be vigilant” so as not to meet that in September the service stops providing, which would be “irreparable damage to the young people of the city.”
For this reason, from ZEC they have asked Natalia Chueca and the Councilor for Youth, Ruth Bravo “to stop playing at once with the youth policies of this City Council, with projects that have been running for more than 30 years and that have been a reference of success in the city and feel to talk about some folds that respect the quality of the service and respect the working conditions of the professionals.”
The mayor of Zaragoza in common, Suso Domínguez fears that these “contacts” suppose “a mechanism to exert pressure on companies to accept conditions that precarize the service and conditions of the workers.”
“If the City Council really wants to bet on this service, improve it and provide it with good professionals, the solution is as simple as developing new sheets so that companies can opt for them, they present and normalize this whole process that has been enchanted a year since these shame folds were published for the first time,” said one of the representatives in the press conference, Raquel Pérez.
From the Workers’ Assembly they have shaved the PP government to use the summer period to act again, having let the entire course pass without considering any alternative and “taking advantage of the fact that the feet workers are unemployed.” “It is a new maneuver that leads us to conditions that do not give us to live and join us in uncertainty,” said another of the workers’ representatives, José Antonio Yagüe.
“We do not know what will end up happening but what the City Council intends and insists on imposing: less hours with the same workload, a precariousness that threatens the professionalism and dignity of a feminized sector,” he said.
The Zaragoza government responds to criticism
From the government team they have defended that their intention has always been to work in a change of model in youth policies, in the 2030 strategy line approved in the last mandate, first prioritizing the participation of young people in the design of policies.
With this objective, and with the technical criteria of the Youth Service, they have explained, the new sheets of the young school zones were developed, which were later endorsed by the Tacpa. It must be remembered in this sense that the TACPA dismissed virtually all the allegations presented by the recurring, demonstrating that the work done by the municipal technicians was well done from the beginning.
For all this, after 7 of the 8 lots of the specifications have been deserted and after maintaining, in recent days, meetings with the companies, the City Council has sent a requirement to the companies that provide the service, where it is detailed that the area of social policies values interest in continuing with this program, since it performs an important socio -educational and alternative leisure function for young people.
Thus, in the requirement, it is proposed to the companies that continue to provide the service, although they have not submitted to the tender, yes, adapting to the new project of young school zones, since “it would be incongruous to maintain the service in the terms of an extinguished contract that clearly deviate from the new project designed by the municipal technicians for this program”.
In addition, the Councilor for Youth, Ruth Bravo, recalled, the contract ended in November 2022 and, since its completion, the service has been provided in the same conditions. At this time, to regularize the situation, the City Council of Zaragoza, they remember, “wrote new sheets and brought themselves out to tender up to twice, being deserted in both.” Currently, since there is no contractual relationship that covers this service, neither to be an essential nor mandatory, “none of the parties is obliged to continue with the provision.”
Conditions of the new specifications
The schedules raised in the new statement, said Bravo, have adapted to the needs of the project, looking for a balance between educational leisure activities and support for the center. Specifically, the face -to -face schedule has been prioritized from 20 hours to 30 hours. “With this we wanted to improve the attention to young people optimizing the face -to -face dedication time and adjusting the development of the day to existing needs,” said Councilor Ruth Bravo.
In the case of integrated public schools, a day of 25 hours per week is set, a limitation that, as Bravo recalls, “is given by the center’s opening time.” “We want this program, which includes 44 young areas in secondary education institutes, integrated public schools and public centers of special education, continues to develop with the highest quality. With that intention, we elaborate a specifications, which was endorsed by the TACPA, and we have now raised this solution to the companies so that the service can continue to be provided.”
“We hope that with the increase in face -to -face we can reach younger and foster their participation in these activities. That is what we are looking for with the new youth policies and that are already giving results, as we are seeing in the summer activities scheduled in the sugar and the tunnel, which are having a great reception,” he said.