translated from Spanish: Workers reject amendments to law on monuments and denounce lack of participation

the function onarios the Ministry of cultures expressed Wednesday their concern over possible modifications to the monuments Act in Congress.
“Workers of the National Monuments Council estimate that not there have been instances of active participation and feedback in the matter,” warned Rocío Barrientos, President of the Trade Association (AG) of the CMN.
Tania González, President of the National Association of workers of the heritage (ANATRAP) also expressed its rejection “to the statements of the Department of heritage in terms of the existence of participation and agreement as regards the modification of the” Monuments national 17.288 “law.
He added that he demands that “implement the service in the terms that the law 21.045, and respect the work of our service”, in reference to the law which created the Ministry of cultures, which houses the CMN.
This means tried unsuccessfully to contact the Council, without success.
Fictitious participation in a joint statement, both organizations say their “deep rejection regarding the transcended that have been happening, where he is stated the existence of instances of collective participation”.
It is “our duty to clarify that there have indeed been instances, but only of informative character where explained us widely guidelines at which point this modification and delivery of information parcializada and segmented”, pointed out .
“In this regard we express that it is not possible to talk about processes of participation as they have been instances of unilateral intervention, without the existence of active dialogues”, they auctioned.
Without agreement on proposal the workers added that “cannot be said in any point of view our agreement or disagreement with a bill that we do not know in detail, since we refused whenever requested”.
“Ultimately, we ignore its specific implications in terms of the real possibility that these changes will enable to ensure the heritage of the Chileans and the working conditions in which workers of heritage will do exercise the role of protection, tuition, safeguard, and approach of law of heritage”.
The officials also emphasized that last year have generated discussion and technical analysis from internal conferences, instances in which participated representatives of the employees of the different technical and cross-cutting areas of the Technical secretariat of the Council of monuments.
From these, drafted a proposal of workers to authorities in order to address the amendments Act 17,288 of national monuments, document that he was admitted to the Undersecretary of the Cultural Heritage in the month of August of 2018, which to the date there has been no response from the authorities.
Project officials behind closed doors also reaffirmed their “deep commitment to our brothers and sisters” with the role of the institution in protection, tuition, safeguard, and approach of the Cultural Heritage law.
“We have been emphatic in every instance with the Lord Deputy Emilio de La Cerda in requiring a proposal by the authority to ensure the working conditions of all / as the workers that make up units of the SNPC that would be affected” by this modification and the date still we hope this proposal or call to set up a table to discuss this point,”they said.
Still further, was accused that associations of the SNPC has omitted them in instances in which the Undersecretary has met with teams from the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage and indigenous peoples to discuss the transfer, denying his involvement and legal representation in these matters.
“Ultimately, as workers of the SNPC, we consider that the modifications to the national monuments Act, is a project that has been created behind closed doors, where participation is disguised in monologues of the authorities who have not step due to active participation of the workers, managers and Assistant Directors of units that would be affected by this change, and that every day go to the work of protection, protection and enhancement of the Cultural heritage of the country”, auctioned.
Denial of hearing of Minister for civil servants, this “indifference” by the authorities, who materializes in the absence of the generation of dynamics of active work in the delivery of biased information, in the lack of response to the proposals put forward by the workers, are crowned with the denial of hearing by the Minister Consuelo Valdés, requested by the unions since early November of last year.
Addition to this dilation of the leveling and transfers of workers from the NSC, despite the budgetary availability from last year to date is not carried out, and “which today is us seeks to impose different rules with arguments outside the” “law and the agreements”.
Carelessness in the transfer of equipment from indigenous peoples is named e intangible which, to date, do not have the minimum conditions to exercise their function, and today are notified will be transferred once again to another instance of the Ministry, without secure again their working conditions.
“We think lousy the ways in which these processes have been carried out, and how seeks US involvement in agreements that have not generated”, was criticized.
“As employees of the SNPC associations, we demand respect for the authorities of the Ministry to our public life and make a call to work together creating instances of collective participation and effective feedback between” authorities, employees and managers of our service, expect a gesture of good offices by the Ministry which is we are a part. We ask that the authorities recognize our technical expertise and open spaces for discussion specific and binding”.
Release concludes with a call to political authorities not to dismantle the service and strengthen it, “and we demand our Director to not neglect the process of installation and implementation of our service, that one year of its entry into force has failed unlock a host of vital guidelines for our management in the face of the public”.

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