THE passenger transport unions They called a strike on Monday. This ruling is still in force, unlike that of freight carriers. They indeed reached an agreement on the application of reducing coefficients to retirement age and strike canceled.
In a press release, CCOO regretted that the employers in the passenger transport sector decided to “stay out” of the deal apply reducing coefficients at retirement age of this type of driver, which justified the strike.
This union, which is demanding early retirement at age 60 for sector staff, assures that there will be general strikes, demonstrations and marches. This strike would affect the urban public transport and road passenger transport sector (buses and minibuses with more than 9 seats), according to statements from the CCOO and the UGT of Navarre.
The National Federation of Transport Associations of Spain maintains that no meeting is planned neither this Friday nor the weekend. Some regions have already decided on the minimum services planned for Monday.
THE the strike will start on Monday and it is expected to continue indefinitely on other designated days for the transportation of goods and passengers such as Black Friday, the December long weekend or even during the Christmas period.
Minimum services in Catalonia
The Generalitat has established some 40% minimum benefits at times of highest demand in the urban and intercity passenger transport service and by 20% the rest of the day due to the strike called Monday by the passenger transport unions.
More specifically, the Minister of Business and Labor, Miquel Samper, issued an order establishing certain 40% minimum benefits of the usual urban and interurban transport service in the time slots from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., while a rate of 20% has been set for the rest of the day.
In all cases, the Generalitat obliges to guarantee a complete round trip and specifies that the percentage of minimum services can be distributed irregularly provided that the overall calculation is respected.
The Generalitat explains that this strike can affect people without personal vehicles, the elderly, people with reduced mobility or to residents of peripheral areas of urban centers, and recalls that the transport of people facilitates access to work, to places of residence, to hospitals, to shops and to centers of economic, social and cultural activity, hence the need to establish “proportionate and adequate measures” as a minimum.
In this line, the transport of disabled people must be guaranteed at 85%school transport also at 85% and as for the transport of goods to supply health and pharmaceutical establishments, it will operate according to the same pattern as a public holiday.
Minimum services in the Balearic Islands
The Department of Housing, Territory and Mobility has created minimum services of 50 and 60% before the strike of the urban and interurban road passenger transport service next Monday.
This was published on Friday in the Official Bulletin of the Balearic Islands (BOIB), as reported by the spokesperson of the Executive, Antoni Costa, during the press conference after the Government Council, in which he clarified that a minimum service of 60 percent in the case of TIB buses, and a minimum service of 50 percent in EMT buses.
Costa indicated that soon Service times will be published on the website. minimums of each line which will be offered during the strike day.
