LAB reported the death of a carrier from Lesaka this Monday to Irun (Gipuzkoa) due to a heart attack, which brings to eleven the number of deaths in the sector this year in Euskadi, Navarra and the Basque Country, and exceeds those recorded in 2023, which amounted to ten.
The Abertzale union recalls that, according to accident report Last year, 33% of deaths due to workplace accidents were classified as non-traumatic, a figure that rises to 75% in the case of transporters.
“This indicates the direct impact of working conditions of transporters in cardiovascular accidents, due to the growing precariousness of the sector”, declares LAB, which calls for participation in the mobilizations called for the death of the Navarrese trucker.
He underlines the need to “put an end to precariousness”, as well as “employer impunity”. “Institutions cannot continue to look the other way, otherwise they will be complicit in what happened,” adds LAB.
