The bus drivers’ strike day urban, interurban and discretionary transport, which includes school routes, convened by CCOO and CGT, passes normally and without incidentsexcept for some delays in the departure of minimum services.
Around 100,000 salaried drivers are called to support the strike, which will continue this fridayas well as the next December 5, 9 and 23, when it would become indefinite, to claim early retirement without economic loss due to the hardship of their work.
In the case of CGT, the strike call It also affects the transport of goods by road, which totals some 220,000 employed workers, but, according to the Fenadismer employer’s association, this Thursday’s day of protest “has not had any impact.”
CCOO makes “a very satisfactory balance” of the strike day this Thursday, highlighting that “it is clear and highlights that the conflict has not been closed at all”, after UGT and the Free Transport Union (SLT) will reach both agreements with the employers’ associations Confebus and Atucleaving its call without effect.
For this reason, CCOO has told EFE that it hopes that Confebus “agrees to the negotiation that last Saturday he tried to undermine that false agreement” with UGT and SLT.
For their part, CGT sources have indicated that Minimum services have run normally this day of protest although with delay as a general rule.
According to Confebusthe mobilization is taking place “very normally”, although he has denounced the broken windows busescoinciding with the days prior to the strike, which he does not understand, “even more so, when It has already been agreed (with CCOO and SLT) to jointly request early retirement from the administration of the driving staff, thus responding to the demands of the workers”.
Little impact on EMT
Along the same lines, the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility of the Madrid City Council, Borja Carabantehas said that the strike has had “little impact” on the service of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT).
The incidence in EMT has been “very residual”, with a follow-up of slightly less than 10%, and The minimum services of 75% in peak hours and 50% in off-peak hours “have been more than met”he detailed, to remember that this Friday the same percentages will be decreed again.
In Catalonia, the strike began at 6:30 a.m., and around 2:00 p.m. The minimum services decreed by the Department of Business and Labor of the Generalitat were 20%.
Low incidence in Euskadi
The strike registers little incidence in Euskadi, little in Bizkaia and less in Álava and Gipuzkoa, according to data collected by EFE.
In Bizkaia and according to data from the Provincial Council corresponding to 9:00 a.m., 85% of the Bizkaibus bus service has operated.
The percentage of service in the different operators Bizkaibus has been 87.8% in Ezkerraldea Meatzaldea Bus (EMB); in Keep it up92.6%; in Enkarterri80%; in Txorierri88.7%; in BLB100%, and in Euskotren69.8%.
In the case of intercity transport, the services have been provided normally, 100% in all concession companies except Avanza, which has worked at 97%.
Delays in Pamplona due to information pickets
In Pamplona, the company awarded the urban transport, CBThas reported that 95% of the buses that circulate on a weekday have left, so has described the monitoring of the strike day as “poor”.
The start of the service has begun with delays due to information pickets, although The established minimum services have been respected.
The Commonwealth of the Pamplona Region has set the minimum services at a 60% during rush hour this Thursday and 40% for the rest of the day.
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