At the request of the Popular Party, the political party totalilad with municipal representation tonight take full text calling continuity RENFE workshops Eagles.
The City of Eagles held tonight the regular plenary session of February, which will include a last-minute proposal at the request of the Popular Party has been supported by all the political parties represented municipal.
Using a common text, signed by the spokespersons of the PP, PSOE and the Working Group, will move to the Plenary the following letter:
We met through RENFE workers in Aguilas, through which they have held meetings with the Mayor and various municipal groups, intended by the company management to close the workshops that the company has in our municipality.
It is about workshops centenarians, who throughout their history have adapted to the production requirements has sued the company, from the maintenance of steam locomotives, in the former warehouse, the central repair shop that specialized in maintenance of cars, passing later by the manufacture of wagons and locomotives booths, the dedication of a portion of its maintenance staff to route long-distance trains, and in the last two years as Component Repair Center specializes in repairing cylinders, brake block and self-propelled equipment timonearías brake and traction locomotives.
The workshop template now has 25 rail, as direct jobs, plus many indirect workers.
They are a human group that has shown great professionalism, with a positive income.
Our city has been tied to the railroad since 1887, with the railways to Baza Lorca and Aguilas, has overcome the events of recent history, the closing lines of 1985 or the consequences generated by the railroad in the latest floods Last September, that after weeks of uncertainty about their future, are being carried out repairs to the line at a great rate, with an expected reopening in the month of April, with an investment of 8 million euros.
It also seems a contradiction when just approved by the Ministry of Development and implementation ADIF works cleavage Mediterranean Corridor, with the anticipation of the arrival in the region of Murcia in 2016, and entrepreneurship for an intermodal freight station to be located in the region of Almanzora region with great export potential of horticultural products, is raised by the RENFE address the closing of a workshop that may be necessary for the maintenance of railway that flow through this corridor.
For all the above, the City Council intends Eagles unanimously agree:
First. - Express support for workers in Eagles RENFE Workshop, in defense of their jobs and their residence in this location.
Second. - Go to the Minister of Development, the President of RENFE operator and the President of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, that after the negotiations and contacts necessary to ensure continuity of RENFE workshops Eagles.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas