Analysis Why now comes the threat of a new strike call?
Fenadismer, the National Federation for the Transport of Goods by Road, will not support the indefinite strike that self-employed truck drivers and small SMEs have called for since next Monday.
The decision has been taken unanimously in an extraordinary assembly this Wednesday.
"The structural and economic measures approved in the last year do not justify carrying out this limit pressure measure" they have pointed out.
Although fuel prices continue to be high, "these measures have allowed truckers to increase their rates in these months and enjoy aid and discounts to compensate for this impact," they say from the organization, which hopes that the Government will commit to maintaining these aids. effective from next January.
For example, the discount of 20 cents on the price of fuel.
The federation had already shown itself against the strikes this Monday, although it recognized that time was needed to eradicate certain behaviors in the sector, in a veiled reference to hiring at a loss that, according to the truckers calling the strikes, is still continues to produce and is the main reason for his complaint.
But if these cases occur, the truck drivers have a mailbox from the Ministry of Transport to make anonymous complaints, they have recalled from Fenadismer.
The official position comes a day after the
rejection of the other major transport employer, CETM.
Its general secretary, Julio Quintano, has assured that a call for strikes "such as the one we have known makes no sense at this time, it would be a setback for the sector itself, for the economy in general and for Spanish society when we are all having a really bad time."
For this reason, they are committed to maintaining a position of continuous negotiation with the Administration.
This dialogue takes place through the National Committee for Road Transport (CNTC), of which Fenadismer and the CETM are part, but not the Transport Defense Platform, which is the one who has called the mobilizations and who already led them in the month of March.
On Monday, the CTNC issued a note in which it was already against them.
"It is not the way to help the sector at the moment.
Now, it is about all the regulation that has been approved in recent months permeating all areas of transport, it is executed, it is complied with and if not, it is sanctioned" .
Precisely the latter is what the Ministry of Transport argues.
That if the carriers suffer abuses in their hiring, that they report it.
That puts the focus on the shippers and logistics operators who, through the AECOC and UNO associations, have also opposed the strikes since it is a "particularly delicate moment for the supply chain, on the eve of Christmas."
In any case,
this global rejection of the call by the Platform from the rest of the transport world also took place in the spring.
And, although this association was branded as not very representative, the truth is that it managed to make the strikes far-reaching, forcing the CNTC to sit down to negotiate with the government, which has never wanted to give an institutional role to the association it defends. self-employed truck drivers and SMEs.
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