This Sunday the minimum services for the regular transport of passengers by roadin anticipation of the drivers’ strike that is called for this Monday, October 28. In an order published in the Official Gazette of Cantabria (BOC)the Ministry of Development of the Government of Cantabria has established the measures to “guarantee” the functioning of the services.
Thus, it has been decreed that they must provide, at a minimum, trips that are in circulation before the time of the start of the strike that must continue their service and reach their destinationas well as services consisting of a single daily round trip that will be carried out in their entirety.
For the rest of the services, the duration and frequency of the lines has been taken into account. For example, for lines with up to 3 daily round trips it will be 1 round trip; From 4 to 6 there will be a minimum of 2 round trip; and from 7 to 9, 3 round trip. As to Lines with 10 or more round trips will be provided with minimum services of 30 percent.
As for the School transportationit will be mandatory to make the first outward journey and the last return journey.
MINIMUM SERVICES IN SANTANDER AND TORRELAVEGA
On the other hand, the municipal service Santander Urban Transport (TUS) has established minimum services of 47 percent in view of the strike in the professional transport sector. In a statement, the Santander City Council has indicated that in the negotiation they have valued services by line and number of buses, routes to hospitals and health centers or nursing homes; as well as the access routes to the main administrative headquarters, schools and universities.
Furthermore, it has been taken into account that it is a strike called by the transport sector and the duration of the strike, “seeking balance and non-discretion by lines or zones”. All the information on the lines, with conditions on schedules and frequencies, is available in the TUS website.
In the case of Torrelavega Town Hallminimum services have also been established that can be consulted in your Web page. Also the Castro Urdiales Town Hall has established its own decrees on schedules and frequencies in urban transportation.
DRIVERS STRIKE
The strike is called by the union organizations of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO), the General Union of Workers (UGT) and the Free Transport Union (SLT) for this Monday the 28th, as well as the following days November 28th and 29th, December 5th and 9th and starting December 23rd indefinitely. The reason is require early retirement of drivers through the formula of applying reducing coefficients due to the hardship and danger of the profession.
The two organizations also demand that A partial retirement with a replacement contract is contemplated by agreement, voluntary for the driver who can continuously accumulate the percentage of hours he has to work and who, in his place, enters a young person. This would be a provisional solution until reducing coefficients were accumulated.
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