The UGT union and the Confebus employers’ association have reached an agreement to rescind the strike call in the road passenger transport sector scheduled for November 28 and 29, December 5 and 9, and December 23 onwards. , but CCOO has distanced itself from the agreement.
UGT and Confebus have explained that the agreement consists of requesting, jointly, once the new Royal Decree on the establishment of reducing coefficients to anticipate the retirement age comes into force, the start of the procedure for establishing reducing coefficients for the anticipation of the retirement age of personnel who perform bus driver tasks.
The agreement, as reported by both entities in a statement, seeks to maintain the adequate economic financial balance of public contracts, preserve employment and the viability of business activity.
“For this reason, the agreement implies the constitution of a table that establishes the mechanisms to compensate for financial imbalances that could occur in public contracts at the local, regional and state level that could be generated in companies due to the approval and application of the increase in the Social Security contribution and the establishment of reducing coefficients”, they state before regretting that, despite the efforts, “it has not been possible to get CCOO to adopt this same agreement”.
CCOO points out that it has not joined the agreement because “a specific date is not established for the presentation of the joint application for the application of reducing coefficients.
“The strike continues and is not called off because UGT cannot call it off alone nor can it, without the agreement of CCOO, present the request for the application of reducing coefficients with Confebus as required by art. 206 of the General Social Security Law,” CCOO states in a statement.
The agreement, according to CCOO, establishes that the request will be submitted after the approval of the Royal Decree that establishes a new administrative procedure. The union remembers that one of the requests of the strike was the modification of the reduction coefficients and not “when the government wants and can.”
“We have no guarantees that the systematic blockade that was being carried out by the administration to not apply the reduction coefficients to professional drivers continues. Since 2021 we have been waiting for that “new” Royal Decree that may never arrive given the situation of the current political majorities in the Congress of Deputies,” says CCOO.
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