Minister Raquel Sánchez meets today with the carriers of "the extreme right" and "the violent mobilizations"

After the agreement reached yesterday after two in the morning between the Government and the National Committee for Road Transport (CNTC) it seemed that the conflict would already be resolved.

However, the National Platform for the Defense of the Transport of Merchandise by Road continues with the strikes and its followers demonstrate today in front of New Ministries on the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid.

Fenadismer

, one of the employers in the sector that had given its associates freedom to support the strike this Thursday, has changed its position after the agreement and considers what was achieved yesterday after the meeting with the Government to be valid.

The question then is: why and who is who in this movement?

According to the Government, the National

.

And it is because last December elections were held to which "the Platform did not attend" according to the Committee and its president, Carmelo González.

An issue that was recalled yesterday by the First Vice President and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño.

Within the Committee, there is representation of the large employers in the sector such as the

Thus, the National Platform for the Defense of Freight Transport is alone in the call.

Raquel Sánchez, Minister of Transport, said last night

And I appeal to responsibility of all".

"I am confident that now that the government has done its part, the sector is responsible."

This morning, before the demonstration in front of her ministry, Raquel Sánchez has repeatedly said that "I am willing to meet with them this afternoon to explain the contents of the agreement."

The call would be scheduled for 5:00 p.m.

this is a patch

In fact, this is the mantra used by Platform and its president, Manuel Hernández, who said this morning that

. And starting because they continue to exclude the authentic carrier, the trucker on foot They don't call us, they don't listen to us, they don't want to negotiate with us, so we're not going to call off this strike."

"If our diesel goes down 20 cents and it goes up 25 cents. This week it has gone up 9 cents. This is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow.

We do not ask for help, we ask to live from our work and this is what he does not want to talk about employers because they are the biggest culprits of hiring 5 and paying 2. Since they don't want to lose the cow with the fat tits, it can't be fixed".

"Because

Hernández explained on the Herrera en Cope program on Cadena Cope.

However, from Fenadismer, its president Julio Villaescusa already distanced himself from the call last night, understanding that "the Government has done everything possible."

From this association,

, advances to improve the professional relationship of carriers with Your partners"

"The global data exceeds 1,000 million euros, but it is not the important thing; the fundamental thing is what is going to reach the carriers, the individual amount, 20 cents of fuel that is going to be applied directly when refueling", explain from this association.

In addition, one of the Platform's claims, to avoid working at a loss, is not understood by Fenadismer: "Operating cost overruns do not have to be covered by these agreements, because any type of cost overrun by a carrier must be passed on to its customers.

more requests

Do the conveners ask for something more than to see the minister?

From Platform, beyond their claim to sit down to negotiate with the Government on setting a minimum payment per kilometer traveled in a carrier, something that would have a difficult time fitting into the legal framework from the point of view of Competition, they remember that they have other demands which are not mentioned in

.

They are mainly these:

Retirement at age 60

They ask

They also require the recognition of occupational diseases derived from driving for both employees and the self-employed.

And they demand that work accidents be considered "all those that occur during periods of work and availability within the professional activity."

This point would be a serious setback for the State: first for the battered Social Security coffers;

second, it contradicts the lack of 15,000 new drivers that the sector says are needed.

State sector agreement

They also demand from the Ministry of Labor - the holder of this portfolio, Yolanda Díaz, did not attend yesterday's meeting between the Government and the National Committee for Road Transport / CNTC) - a single agreement for the entire State that is mandatory for all employees and whose minimum wage item differentiates between the territorial scope of the performance of the driver's activity.

Avoid unfair competition from truckers from Eastern Europe

They ask the Government for a firm and written commitment from the Transport Inspectorate to comply with the limitation of cabotage, reducing it to a single trip in the first six days of entering the host country by community carriers, as long as there is no fiscal and labor harmonization that equates labor and fiscal costs.

At the same time, they demand that non-compliance with said rule and the expulsion of the truck and its driver from the territory in cases of recidivism or false documentation be considered a very serious infraction.

Inspection of false self-employed

Another important demand of SMEs and the self-employed is the

to prevent large companies, in parallel with their main activities, from "using the cooperative model to convert their drivers into false self-employed" .

loading and unloading

The Government and the CNTC undertook after the agreement reached last December to eliminate loading and unloading by drivers.

However, in the Decree Law published on March 1, exceptions were established that the organizers see as an open door to the elimination of loading and unloading activity by drivers.

Hence, they claim the "

.

In addition, they ask for its "immediate entry into force", and not six months after its publication in the BOE as is currently stipulated in the royal decree.

«We do not want money, we want not to download.

It is for their own dignity, ”insists Manuel Hernández, president of Platform.

Of course, this point and the maximum waiting time for loading and unloading that is one hour is already included in the Royal Decree Law approved unanimously by the Congress of Deputies this week.

What is not understood is that after the letter sent to the Ministries of Transport and Labor by the organizers of the strike last week, Yolanda Díaz has not sat down in the negotiations.

War for power in Platform

But returning to the issue of the legitimacy of who represents or does not represent the sector, Marcos Basante, president of the Association of International Carriers, launched a poisoned dart yesterday, Thursday, at the organizers of the Antena 3 program Espejo Público: "We are a small association of 200 members but we have 21,000 trucks. We are not that big employers' association that does not have trucks.

which are Fenadismer and Fecansa.

This man, when he has consolidated his project based on defamation and lies, tells us that we are chorizos, I would tell him that I have never eaten shrimp in the ministry in my life.

We manage 250,000 euros of subsidy for training audited to the last penny by the ministry ".

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