The Plenum of the Murcia Regional Assembly unanimously adopted a statement this morning institutional support workers workshops Renfe-Operadora Eagles defend their jobs and their residence in that locality.
The Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Murcia in the declaration adopted defends the continuation of these workshops and qualifies contradiction that arises from the closure of a workshop that may be necessary for the maintenance of railway traveling on the Mediterranean Corridor, "when recently 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 d to place in the region of Almazora, area with great potential exporter of horticultural products. "
The approved statement reads:
TABLE A REGIONAL ASSEMBLY OF MURCIA. -
Juan Carlos Ruiz Lopez, spokesman of the Popular Group, Begoña García Retegui, the Socialist Party spokesman Jose Antonio Pujante and Diekmann, Joint Parliamentary spokesperson raise in Parliament the following:
INSTITUTIONAL STATEMENT OF REGIONAL ASSEMBLY AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MURCIA ON THE FUTURE OF WORKSHOPS RENFE - OPERATOR IN EAGLES.
We met through RENFE workers Eagles through meetings with the parliamentary groups of the Regional Assembly of Murcia, intended by the company management to close the workshops that the company is in the town of Aguilas.
Some workshops centenarians, who throughout their history have adapted to the production requirements has sued the company for maintenance of steam locomotives in the old warehouse, the central repair shop that specialized in the maintenance of wagons, later moving to manufacture new wagons, locomotive cabin, the dedication of a portion of its staff to maintenance route long-distance trains, and in the last two years as Component Repair Center specializes in repairing Brake cylinder-block and propelled material in brake and traction timonearías locomotives.
The workshop template now has 25 rail as direct jobs, plus as many indirect jobs are a human group that has shown great professionalism, with a positive income.
The city of Eagle has been linked with the railway 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 railway from the past 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 Public Works and ADIF for implementing works of splitting the Mediterranean corridor, with the anticipation of the arrival in the region of Murcia in 2016, and the initiative business for an intermodal freight station to be located in the region of Almazora, area with great potential exporter of horticultural products, is raised by the direction of RENFE, the closure of a workshop that may be necessary for the maintenance of equipment railway traveling on this corridor.
By foregoing the Regional Assembly of Murcia, agreed unanimously:
First. - Express support workers RENFE Workshop Eagles defend their jobs and their residence in this town.
Second. - The Regional Government is directed to the Ministry of Development, that after the negotiations and contacts necessary to ensure continuity of RENFE workshops Eagles.
Source: Asamblea Regional de Murcia