The union CGU and the bosses Confebus reached an agreement to cancel the call for bus strike scheduled for November 28 and 29, December 5 and 9 and from December 23, but CCOO distanced himself from the agreement.
The UGT and Confebus explained that the agreement consists of jointly requesting, as soon as the new royal decree establishing reducing coefficients comes into force, to anticipate the retirement agethe start of the procedure for establishing reduction coefficients for anticipating the retirement age of personnel carrying out maintenance tasks. driver bus
The agreement, as indicated by the two entities in a press release, aims to maintain the appropriate economic and financial balance of public procurement, to preserve employment and the viability of economic activity.
“For this reason, the agreement involves the constitution of a table that establishes the mechanisms to compensate for financial imbalances that could arise in public procurement at local, regional and state level and 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 affirm before regretting that, despite their efforts, “it was not possible to get CCOO to adopt this same agreement”.
CCOO emphasizes that it did not adhere to the agreement because “a specific date for the presentation of the joint request for the application of reducing coefficients.
“The strike continues and is not canceled because the UGT cannot cancel it alone nor, without the agreement of CCOO, present the request for application of the reducing coefficients to Confebus as required by art. 206 of the General Social Security Law,” CCOO said in a press release.
The agreement, according to CCOO, provides that the request will be submitted after the approval of the royal decree which establishes a new administrative procedure. The union recalls that one of the demands of the bus strike was the modification of the reduction coefficients and not “when the Government I want to and I can.”
“We have no guarantee that the systematic blockage carried out by the administration to not apply the reducing coefficients to professional drivers will continue. Since 2021, we have been waiting for this “new” royal decree which may never arrive given the situation of the current political majorities in the Congress of Deputies,” says CCOO.
