Arona's beaches finally have lifeguards again

[Janet]

Arona's lifeguards are saying that the beaches are now manned. That is to say, Arona's old lifeguards are saying that the beaches are now manned ... and not by them. After the entire saga, resulting in a year's worth of posts HERE, of 18 months of being forced to provide minimum services without being paid, and of finally being locked out of their own work station, Arona's beaches finally have lifeguards again. New ones.

As I posted in that link on 14 January, Arona's environment councillor, Antonio Sosa, had announced that the council was looking to contract two or three lifeguards for a few months to provide temporary cover until the process to award the contract for the service is finished. And the council has now done so, it seems, six of them, and none from the old contingent. As Diario de Avisos is reporting this morning, Pro Activa will now provide lifeguard cover to the beaches temporarily. The lifeguards say they will continue with their fight to have their own rights recognized, and compensated.

From a purely cool-headed perspective, at least there are lifeguards, so Tenerife's tourism reputation won't continue to be endangered by the chaos in Arona. But who will forget the last year and a half? And who will forget the lifguards themselves? And hopefully no-one will forget the solution at last provided by Councillor Sosa, who says that things couldn't continue like this, and an urgent response was needed ... JA

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

I understand needing a job but to take a job when the current holders have been shafted like they have been seems inconsiderate.

[Guanche]

Sadly Myrtle such is the job market in Tenerife. Even more sadly, I think the plight of the previous lifeguards will soon be forgotten. Such is the wickedness of the ruling class in Spain.

[Michael]

Sadly Myrtle such is the job market in Tenerife. Even more sadly, I think the plight of the previous lifeguards will soon be forgotten. Such is the wickedness of the ruling class in Spain.

I was about to say that most people have the memory span of a goldfish. When something doesn't affect them personally, they forget very quickly.