A hundred people, including workers, unions and family members of the Reus Elderly Home users, have protested before the Parliament against the closing of the equipment.
On November 27, they already mobilized in front of the Reus building, coinciding with the visit of the general secretary of the Department of Social Rights, Oriol Amorós, who announced its "preventive" closure due to structural deficiencies.
CCOO, UGT and IAC have also met this Thursday with the different political parties of the Catalan chamber to denounce that they are left "without the only 100% public residence" in the city and have demanded solutions for temporary workers, those in the external companies and for users on the waiting list.
Although the Department of Social Rights already announced during the last visit to Reus that it was committed to relocating residents and staff to other centers in the city, CCOO continues to claim the jobs of temporary staff and those of external companies that " would clearly be in danger" with the closure of the residence.
At the moment, the workers and their families are waiting for a technical report that corroborates the structural deficiencies of the building.
"The decision causes bad thinking and suspicion," union sources have stated, considering that it is a political decision and not a technical one.
"They say that it will close due to structural problems, but we all know that these problems have existed for ten years," recalled the president of the Drets Socials works council in Tarragona, Gloria Boqué, two weeks ago.
For its part, the Department continues to study the best option among the three proposals it has on the table: look for a new location and build a new residence, take advantage of an existing building or, ultimately, rehabilitate the current building - owned by the State. -.
CCOO has regretted that if a new residence is built in the city, it will be privately managed. For this reason, it has demanded that the definitive solution involves a rehabilitation of the current property, as has been done with the Residència Mare de Déu de la Mercè in Tarragona. According to reports, the Tarragona building has been under construction for more than a decade, without the need to close it, since the remodeling has been done by floors and "residents and staff have been moving through the different fine spaces in the total renovation."
