CCOO and UGT They maintain the call for a general strike in road transport, but only for travelersin addition to self-propelled cranes, after reaching agreements on merchandise and health.
In this way, they are called to support the mobilization starting at 00:00 next Monday, October 28more than 80,000 drivers of intercity buses, urban buses, occasional and school transport, as well as self-propelled cranes, to demand the application of retirement age reducing coefficients in the sector.
Initially, the strike call by CCOO and UGT, which has been supported by the majority of the rest of the unions, affected around 300,000 workersby including those who work in the transportation sector road freight (about 220,000 as an employee).
A historic demand for 20 years
This is a historic claim that The unions began to put on the table already in 2004from which, during the last twenty, they have carried out different mobilizationssuch as concentrations, press conferences or presentation of studies, but A general strike had never been called.
After the first day of strike of the seven called, during which a concentration before the Government Delegation in Madridthe mobilization will continue the days November 11, 28 and 29; December 5 and 9; and, from 23 of that monthcould become indefinite.
The deputy secretary general of the Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption (FeSMC) from UGT, Pedro Allerexplained this Friday to EFE that, after the unions lowered their approach to the minimums that they considered essential, the freight transport employers have accepted itbut those of travelers have rejected the same document.
Aller has clarified that, of course, it is not the document that the unions would like in terms of merchandise, since There are things in which they would have liked to go further.but “yes it’s the first step” that they had been demanding.
The agreement includes the commitment to implement preventive measures in companies and contemplates the possibility of adjusting costs to provide necessary quotes in the merchandise sector and apply the reducing coefficients.
The employers of travelers who sit at the negotiating table –Confebus, Atuc, Anetra and direbusin addition to cranes Anagrual–, “they hide behind a cost issue“, that the unions they don’t see “anywhere”he explained.
The general secretary of the Road and Logistics sector of the Federation of Citizen Services of CCOO (FSC-CCOO), Francisco José Vegashas pointed out to EFE that, until the time of the start of the strike “there is always the option of calling it off, but really the conditions are not met“.
In this sense, he has detailed that the bosses have left the table when the social part believed “that there were enough issues to be able to reach an agreement”, so it does not understand “why suddenly they swerved.”
Also aller has emphasized that The social side remains open to reaching an agreement with the passenger associations if they are willing to sign it on the same terms as has been done with merchandise.
Minimum services
As for the minimum services, they have to publish the administrations that have ownership of the service which, in some cases, is the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility; and, in others, of the autonomous communities and the own town councils.
According to the unions, these minimum service resolutions –which tend to be disparate, being some very abusive and others more balancedsince each administration has its own vision in this aspect – they are currently being received “in a dropper.”
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