Nora Kamiñetzky
In a massive meeting, the first of the year, in which C.E.C.A.F. associates and members of Conservadores Unidos Group (United Maintainers) have participated, issues that make for the best performance of this activity were discussed, and new issues that C.E.C.A.F. projects as achievements of its management were put on the table.
The new C.E.C.A.F.’s Board of Directors, chaired since last December by Manuel Premaríes, seeks to put the focus on a change in the profile of the maintenance companies and their directors. The aim is to put them the driving force, so to speak, of this industry, as they are the visible face and the main actors that move the consumption of the elevator components, and who are responsible in front of the community for the safety of the elevator park. However, C.E.C.A.F. and Conservadores Unidos consider that they take the smallest part in the distribution of this business. Their opinions and decisions have little weight when setting their commercial and government conditions.
To give the activity the prominence it deserves, 60 entrepreneurs in the field of vertical transport maintenance and conservation met last Saturday morning, June 1st, in a convention hall in the Faculty of Medicine area, summoned to discuss the topics of their activity in a talk organized by Professor Carlos Tedesco, an important collaborator of the Chamber of Elevator and Related Maintenance Businessmen – C.E.C.A.F. Elevator maintenance CEOS, members of the C.E.C.A.F. or , or enrolled in the group Conservadores Unidos (United Maintainers), were present. Carlos Tedesco, with an extensive career in this activity as an entrepreneur and as a professor and author of books on the subject, expressed, when opening the talk, his interest in raising the level of the activity, improving its competitiveness, protecting professionalism and maximizing economic benefits by improving management results. The idea is to create a homogeneous attitude among those who wish to progress as true professional entrepreneurs, some 200 among the members of C.E.C.A.F and Conservadores Unidos, to have prosperous and efficient companies that then transmit this guiding line of thought to the rest of the more than 500 registered companies that have not yet internalized this mentality.
The members of the Board of Directors spoke and expressed their own experiences as entrepreneurs, dealing with the issue of payments, the relationship with building administrations, with fellow companies, and with the AGC (Government Control Agency).
Although, indeed, the elevator maintenance workers do not make a guild, since they are not grouped to defend their rights facing an employers’ association or a political group, something defines them and that is they are owners of companies for the maintenance of Vertical Transport. This reason creates a bond among them and a professional camaraderie. The big question the sector makes itself is whether these leaders are willing to be true entrepreneurs in this sector that keeps the elevators and escalators running and therefore guarantees the operation of the thousands and thousands of high-rise buildings in the city.
