The bus transport employers’ association says that monitoring of the strike is almost “null” and calls on the unions to negotiate

The Spanish Confederation of Bus Transport (Confebus) and the Association of Urban and Metropolitan Public Transport (Atuc)two of the main employers of bus transport in Spainhave defended that the follow-up to the strike this Thursday and Friday in the sector has been “practically zero.”

CCOO and CGT have called strikes to ask that employers commit to set a deadline to request administrations to implement early retirement in the sector for reasons of danger, after they have only agreed to request it when a royal decree on reducing coefficients comes into force, the date of which is uncertain.

Confebús and Atuc assure that in some provincial capitals such as A Coruña, Córdoba, Cádiz or Málaga, the workers have not supported the strike, and others such as Bilbao, Madrid or Barcelona have had a follow-up of 5%, 7% and 33%respectively. In Oviedo, for its part, 20% has been reached, in Gijón 16% and in Girona 5%.

In any case, The strike will continue on December 5 and 9and from the 23rd of that month it will be indefinite, although Atuc and Confebús defend that they will continue working to avoid the strike in the middle of the December long weekend and, later, at Christmas.