The Platform for the Defense of the Road Transport Sector has agreed to "temporarily suspend" the strike that these self-employed hauliers and SMEs initiated on March 14.
After 20 days of mobilizations, and after consulting those attending the assembly held at a service station in the Madrid town of San Fernando de Henares, which was attended by around a hundred carriers from all over Spain, the decision has been taken.
Prior to the National Assembly called by the platform, its president, Manuel Hernández, assured that it would serve to "make the corresponding decisions".
This platform has assured that the carriers will resume the strike at the time they deem appropriate, so a new strike cannot be ruled out yet.
The Platform called an indefinite strike on March 14, since it does not accept the measures agreed on March 25 by the Government with the National Road Transport Committee (CNTC), which include a bonus of 20 cents per liter of fuel.
That same day, on March 25, the platform met with the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sanchez, but Hernandez said that "no progress was made" because, in his view, "everything is based on promises". "Our situation is so serious that it does not allow us to have any lack of solutions," he said.
During his intervention in the assembly, the spokesman of the Platform, Manuel Hernández, defended that it is time to "be intelligent" and "know how to manage the strength" that the collective has gained in recent weeks "to give the second blow, which will come".
"We have to organize even more in the provinces and prepare ourselves so that, in a short period of time, we can return to action with more strength," Hernandez explained to the attendees minutes before the show of hands.
Before knowing the result, the spokesman for the Platform announced that the strike "was called with certain objectives, and until they are not achieved, nothing will be called off".
With the "pause" agreed this Saturday morning, the Platform seeks to organize even more to "represent the worker". In this line, Hernandez has announced to the carriers that they will engage in talks with several associations that "wanted to leave that mafia Committee (In allusion to the CNTC)".
Likewise, in the next few days they will develop the mechanism for interested parties to join the Platform, and will draw up a signed and stamped document with their transportation cards.
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