With the signature of the councilors Gabriel Gabbiani (Colorado Party) and Carlos Fernández (Frente Amplio), the Departmental Board of Colonia requested the constitution of a Pre-Investigative Commission, composed of one councilor from each bench, to intervene in everything related to the complaints. carried out by an official of the Municipality of Tarariras, and establish whether or not the constitution of an Investigative Commission is appropriate.
The request is more than anything an administrative procedure that responds to Article 185 of the Internal Regulations of the Corporation, since a call to the Chamber to the mayor and councilors of Tarariras on this issue was voted by the deliberative committee almost unanimously, with the single exception of a nationalist councilor.
Serious allegations that must be supported
The request establishes that “the facts that are intended to be investigated are those publicly reported, through the press and social networks, by the official Luis Elvis García, of the Municipality of Tarariras, regarding alleged irregularities and abuses committed by a foreman of the same .”
The official assures that “in the Municipality of Tarariras, in the operational section, we depend directly on a first-rate foreman, who from the first day I joined, in 2012, always abused his duties, belittled and mistreated the workers, thus generating “workplace and psychological harassment against the majority of them.”
“In our sector,” he continues, “we have different types of workers according to their functions. There are the “mimosos” or “parrots”, who are two or three people assigned to the simplest jobs. They are the ones who earn the most in terms of salary because they have accumulated more than 140 overtime hours in a month that no one controls, and many times they are not even in the workplace. They receive travel expenses without paying them, they receive special unhealthy cemetery meals, often without paying them, and, of course, when the others go outside to work, they stay in the shed, sometimes for more than an hour, so as not to be cold or hot and take care of your health.”
“Then, there are the workers located in medium to simple jobs, to take care of them for obvious reasons, and their salary is the most normal. Finally, there are the workers in the sector that we vulgarly call “slaves”, who enter by lottery or because the foreman does not like our face. We take care of the most complicated jobs: heavy lifting, cleaning gutters with fecal matter and, almost always, cutting grass, among other tasks, even in the middle of winter,” he adds.
“We are subject to not having a stable salary, since the first foreman handles overtime as he pleases, not as he should due to service needs. As a result, we are the ones who earn the least. All jobs are necessary and someone must do them, but we have suggested that the jobs should be more rotating so as not to always overload the same workers with the same type of task, which affects their health, and we have never received answers,” he adds.
It is essential to know what criteria the accused foreman has adopted to grant overtime, and whether it is established that said award has been made arbitrarily, benefiting or punishing the different officials. It is also necessary to check the “psychological harassment” on the part of the foreman to which the operator refers, and whether the phrases he mentions in his complaints (“If you don’t like the job, leave it; I’ll take care of the payroll later”, “ I don’t pay you to think, I pay you to follow orders”, “Here I am the one in charge, and anyone who doesn’t like it already knows what to do”, “Here no one is complete, no one is good for anything”, among others) are actually routine in daily dealings. It is also necessary to know if, as stated in the complaint, the mayor has validated the reference overtime hours with his signatures, and given the assertion that these situations have already been discussed with him more than once without finding a solution, state the reasons why this alleged irregular situation persists, and why it has not been resolved.
Did the official back out?
“In addition, the official denounces very serious irregularities in the orbit of Necropolis and the connivance of the mayor with the abuses that were allegedly committed.
At the same time, in the Ordinary Session of last Tuesday, November 5, the Chamber was informed that, summoned by the Social Assistance Commission, the official claimed that he could not prove the complaints he made and that he had reached an economic agreement with which he had resolved his problems, which suggests a situation of coercion, coercion, coercion, summons, intimidation, pressure, extortion, blackmail, at the very least, but of bribery or another crime against the public administration,” he maintains. the note.
“It is not necessary to elaborate on the nature of the complaint, since what has been expressed is more than enough. Regarding the seriousness of its origin, it is more than founded since the official also made the same before the Public and Prosecutor’s Office,” he continues.
“With reference to the opportunity and origin of an investigation on the topic raised, we understand them to be more than justified, since it is appropriate that this deliberative proceed with the same formalism with which it acted by installing Investigative Commissions for the complaints in the Municipality of Florencio Sánchez, in the Municipality of Colonia Miguelete and in the Transit and Transportation Directorate of the Departmental Administration. It should be remembered that, in the three cases, an Investigator was formed within this Departmental Board independently of the administrative investigation carried out in the IDC and the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office, so we understand it is acceptable to proceed in the same way. in this case and not proceed arbitrarily by mutating the criteria used in previous cases,” concludes the note presented by Gabbiani and Fernández.
Councilor Gabbiani’s press secretary report
