Autonomous carriers and SMEs reject the proposal and join the strikes

While the Government celebrates the agreement with the CNTC, the main employer of road freight transport, the Assembly of Fenadismerone of the federations that is part of this organization, announces its rejection of the proposed measures. Less than two hours have been enough for the representatives of the SMEs and the self-employed who were present at the negotiations to back down on understanding that the proposal “He still does not specify what help is going to reach each carrier” and they have decided to join the strikes.

In this sense, from Fenadismer and the two member federations of the National Committee for Road Transport that represent the self-employed and transport SMEs (Fenadismer, Fetransa and Feintra) agreed on Monday night to support the strikes since they understand that the measures that the Government proposes “do not allow for the moment to resume the activity of freight transport by road”.

These federations consider that the announcement of these measures is “positive but insufficient in the current situation, with thousands of carriers stopped for more than a week, since their lack of specificity and forcefulness do not allow conveying security to carriers, mainly self-employed and SMEs, which are currently in a limit situation to be able to continue working in conditions of minimum profitability”, they admit.

At this Monday’s meeting, the Government, through the Minister of Transport, Rachel Sanchezhas presented a battery of measures to reduce the price of professional fuel that are valued at 500 million euros. According to the proposal, these will be financed between the State and the fuel distribution and marketing companies, although the percentages of each of them are yet to be specified.

Sources present at the meeting confirm to the Economist that this proposal includes measures that would not be approved until March 29, so they would not be immediately applicable as requested by carriers. At the end of it, the minister of the branch has specified that the principle of agreement includes the specification of the measures once the European Council is held on March 24 and 25.