The
indefinite stoppage of transport
is already
the most serious that has occurred in Spain since the June
2008
lockout
, which lasted 11 days and in which two truck drivers were killed when they participated in two pickets -one in Granada and the other in Portugal-.
The current strike officially started at
00:00 on Monday, March 14,
but it began to take shape several months before, almost since the reactivation almost a year ago of the Platform for the Defense of the Road Goods Transport Sector, the same organization that called the 2008 strike.
October 8, 2021
The new president of the Transport Platform,
Manuel Hernández,
is received at the Ministry of Transport and, during the two hours that the meeting lasts, exposes the
impossibility
of small and medium-sized companies
to pass on the shippers, their clients, the costs actual exploitation
.
The price of diesel has just reached its annual maximum and already has an average value of 1.31 euros/litre.
November 10, 2021
The National Committee for Road Transport (
CNTC
), which brings together the main business associations in the sector, announces
three strike days from December 20 to 22
, just before
Christmas
, and demands "a radical and urgent change on the part of the Government and the clients".
Hernández assures that he is "a paripé" of the big bosses to silence the complaints of the small carriers.
December 17, 2021
After meeting twice in 15 days, the CNTC and the Ministry of Transport reach a
historic agreement to call off the Christmas strike
.
The Government accepts some of the carriers' demands, such as the prohibition of the driver's participation in loading and unloading operations, reducing waiting times to one hour, a
clause to review the price of diesel
and the commitment
not to introduce tolls heavy transport without consensus with the sector
.
Nothing is said about prohibiting hiring below operating costs.
For Hernández, the "paripé" is confirmed.
March 1, 2022
The Council of Ministers approves the Royal Decree-law of transport that includes all the measures of a normative nature agreed on December 17.
The next day it is published in the BOE, but
the main measures
, such as the prohibition - with exceptions - of loading and unloading,
will take six months to enter into force.
March 5th
After numerous provincial assemblies, the Transport Platform holds a general assembly at the Vistalegre Palace in Madrid and decides, by vote,
to reject the December agreements
and call an
indefinite strike from March 14
while the Government does not feel to negotiate and real solutions are signed for the "base carrier".
March 10th
Fenadismer and the CETM, the main associations integrated into the CNTC, ask the Government to
intervene in the fuel market
to limit the price of diesel and refuse to join the strike.
"This is not the time," they say.
March 14
The indefinite strike called by the Transport Platform begins.
The day begins with relative calm, but as the hours go by, the monitoring of the strike increases and
the first informative pickets are organized
in industrial estates and logistics centers.
That night
a transporter
who participated in a picket in San Fernando de Henares
was wounded by a bullet after a struggle with a National Police agent.
March, 15th
EL MUNDO publishes that the Minister of Transport,
Raquel Sánchez
,
has no intention of meeting with the representatives of Platform.
The pickets extend throughout Spain and the Government mobilizes thousands of agents to guarantee the operation of the supply chain.
March 16
The head of Transport meets with the CNTC and announces that
the Government will take measures so that carriers do not work at a loss.
Hernández assures that the minister "wasting her time" by meeting with "the wrong people."
The number of assaults and arrests is growing.
March 17
Several ministers, including the Minister of Transport, describe the strike as "minority" and assure that the mobilizations are "
a boycott organized by minority sectors of ultras supported by the extreme right
".
Hernández assures that the Government tries to minimize the problem and criminalize the protests.
March 20
Fenadismer
and other national federations integrated into the
CNTC
announce their intention to
join the strike in the face of the Government's passivity.
March 21st
The Minister of Transport, together with those of the Treasury and Economic Affairs, meets again with the CNTC and announces an
aid of 500 million euros to compensate for the rise in the price of diesel
.
Raquel Sánchez agrees to break down the aid package on Friday, March 25.
Hernández assures that the aid will not reach SMEs and the self-employed and that they do not provide "any acceptable solution for the grassroots sector."
Fenadismer, Fetransa and Feintra join the strike
due to the "lack of specificity and forcefulness" of the Government.
March 22
The food bosses announce the
closure of numerous factories
and warn of the
risk of shortages
.
He assures that unemployment is "unsustainable" and "a State problem".
23 of March
The Government
advances the meeting with the CNTC to Thursday to break
down the package announced on Monday.
Ten days of strike have passed without the minister receiving the conveners.
Hernández accuses her of being "irresponsible" for "despising" the Platform.
"As long as she doesn't sit down to negotiate with the real carriers, no strike is going to be called off," she maintains.
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