The carriers maintain the strike: “As long as it costs us money to start, we will remain unemployed”

Good words but no solutions. This is the summary of the meeting that this Friday afternoon took place between the organizers of the strikes, the National Platform in Defense of Transport, and the Minister of Transport, Rachel Sanchez. On your way out, Manuel Hernandez, president of the platform, has affirmed that they will continue with the strike: “As long as starting costs us money, we will continue unemployed”.

According to the words of Hernández, the minister of the branch has asked them to return to activity from next Monday, a request that they have rejected considering that the proposals approved this morning are not enough. The collective would have requested the approval of a law that prevents contracting at losses and some transitory measures to mitigate the situation until that happens.

The branch minister has appealed to the “responsibility” of carriers at a time when, as he has said in an interview in the sixthSpain “has enough”. Sánchez has trusted that starting next Monday the activity will resume and that “everyone who wants to” be allowed to work safely. “Everything that has been proposed to me is in the agreement this morning” and in the Royal Decree that was approved just a few days ago in the Congress of Deputies, he has stated.

Hernández He has pointed out that the current situation is not new, that it was dealt with in October and no solutions have been put in place. “A lot of time has been wasted,” she has admitted. “The price they are going to pay us is not enough to cover costs,” The president of the Platform recalled at the end of the meeting. Immediately afterwards, the representative of the unemployed carriers announced that slow truck marches “peacefully” will be held in several Spanish cities this Saturday morning to show his disagreement.

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