The president of the Union of Workers of the Electrical Industry and Irrigation (Utier), Àngel Figueroa Jaramillo, Has expressed today, Wednesday, that the governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia Far away try to be more of the same after assuring during his status message that he will not cancel the LUMA Energy contract.
During a separate press conference on the north side of the Capitol, where several unions came to protest, the union leader maintained hopes that the situation covered by the contract and the investigations he is enduring in the Legislature will cause cancel the agreement.
“LUMA it will not have the capacity to operate. We hope and trust that the mobilizations that will continue to happen will change the opinion of those politicians of the PNP (New Progressive Party) who still continue to insist on supporting a contract that is bad for the people of Puerto Rico, “he said. .
During his message, the governor assured that is open to amendments, If necessary, but has stated that he has never considered canceling it.
However, this morning the House of Representatives approved a measure postponing the contract until January 15, 2022 instead of June of the current year.
When questioned about the governor’s allegation that the employees of the Electricity Authority they will be well paid and will have greater benefits, Figueroa Jaramillo assured that Pierluisi Urrutia lies when realizing these insinuations.
“We have seen documents that we post on social media that show that the worker has less benefits with LUMA. The simplest example is that with sick leave, we have 18 and with LUMA they are 12, ”he exemplified.
In turn, the official also advanced that the main issue to be carried out by the May 1 demonstrations will be the rejection of the LUMA contract.