The Government asks for "a vote of confidence" from carriers while the strike intensifies

• Transportation Several large employers join the strike of small carriers

The concord and the agreement between the Government and the large employers of the carriers barely lasted the duration of the press conference after the meeting on Monday.

Not even four hours had passed since that when one of the large organizations included under the umbrella of the CNTC,

, distanced itself last night from the Committee itself, and this morning

They all claim

in the announced measures, and the Executive, which admits that lack of definition, asks them in return for "a vote of confidence."

"The measures are going to be effective. We will specify them in the coming days. That specification has not been made. I ask you for a vote of confidence. We want to propose a set of measures that are more comprehensive and that can help us make the measures effective" , said the Minister of Transport,

, in an interview on Telecinco.

The minister herself announced yesterday, after almost eight hours of meeting with the National Committee for Road Transport, an aid plan for the sector that will include a

.

However, Sánchez did not detail what these bonuses will be like, or who or how they will be able to access them, and that is precisely what the associations that have distanced themselves from the official position of the majority employers are now denouncing.

His movement opens a fracture within the CNTC, which until now is the only interlocutor that the Government recognizes as valid in the negotiations with the sector, but also raises the tension in the strikes and mobilizations that this Tuesday celebrate their ninth consecutive day.

In this way, the protests, called by the

, intensify and put more pressure on the Executive to commit to speeding up the measures even before March 29, which is the date that Moncloa has set. to approve a royal decree for specific aid against the crisis in Ukraine.

"Specifying now without ensuring that others can be adopted that, for example, limit price increases, could make them ineffective. Therefore, we are going to specify these measures as soon as possible, but I ask the self-employed and carriers who have decided not to resume their activity that they do so because we are thinking of them", said Raquel Sánchez in

.

Concern in Moncloa

His words reflected the concern that exists in Pedro Sánchez's Cabinet in the face of protests that have been altering part of the country's distribution chains for days and causing difficulties in the supply of some areas and specific products, especially fresh ones.

The Government at first

, but their scope has been growing as the days have passed and the self-employed and SMEs begin to join other larger companies.

]. When this mobilization began, it was a very minority sector, it was a minority that prevented the normal development of the work of many carriers," said Raquel Sánchez in this regard.

This position, in fact, has led them to not want to meet with the platform calling for the strikes, something that the platform itself does not understand or forgive.

"As long as the Ministry of Transport does not sit down, does not negotiate, does not agree and sign with Platform, this is not going to stop: it must be taken for granted," the organization's president,

said yesterday, upon learning of the principle of according to the CNTC.

The minister insists that the negotiations are being carried out with "the legitimate representatives of the carriers", that "the measures that we are analyzing and agreeing on take into account and include the platform's requests" and that "regardless of who the photo is taken, what matters is what measures are being adopted so that they have a real impact on carriers' pockets".

The agreement sealed on Monday also contemplates

, instead of the quarterly frequency with which it has been done until now, and the weekly (and not monthly) publication on the Ministry's website of the reference index to know the price of

On the contrary, Sánchez has ruled out that there will be any reduction in VAT because "it would be ineffective, like other measures related to the reduction of taxes on hydrocarbons."

Less rest and more driving

The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has issued a resolution making rest periods and driving in the transport of goods more flexible to avoid problems of shortages due to the indefinite strike that is celebrating its ninth consecutive day on Tuesday.

The resolution, published this Tuesday in the Official State Gazette (BOE), will be applicable to drivers who carry out freight transport operations throughout the national territory from March 17 to 27, 2022, both included.

Specifically, the resolution

compliance with the driving, pause and rest limits established by regulation by the European Commission, "in order to mitigate the effects" of the stoppage in the supply of goods to centers of production and industry and avoid problems of shortages.

Thus, until March 27,

;

the maximum weekly driving limit of 56 hours is replaced by one of 60 hours;

the maximum bi-weekly driving limit of 90 hours is replaced by one of 102 hours;

the daily rest requirements are reduced from 11 hours to one of 9 hours, and the possibility of taking two consecutive reduced weekly rests of at least 24 hours is established, provided that compensation is taken together with the following normal weekly rest.

The European regulation provides that, in case of urgency, the Member States may establish temporary exceptions to compliance with driving periods, breaks and rest periods for a maximum period of 30 days, and must notify the European Commission immediately.

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