The Platform for the Defense of the Road Transport Sector has agreed to "temporarily suspend" the strike thatthese self-employed transporters and SMEs began on March 14.
After20 days of protests, and following consultation with 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 transporters from all over Spain, the decision has been made.
Prior to this National Assembly convened by the platform, its president, Manuel Hernández, assured that it would serve to "make the appropriate decisions."
This platform has assured that transporterswill resume the strike when they deem it appropriate, so a new strike cannot yet be ruled out.
On March 14, the Platform called for anindefinite strike, as it does not accept the measures agreed upon on March 25 by the Government and the National Road Transport Committee (CNTC), which include a subsidy of 20 cents per liter of fuel.
That same day, March 25, the platform met with the Minister of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, but Hernández assured that"no progress was made"since, in his opinion, "everything is based on promises." "Our situation is so serious that we cannot afford to have any shortcomings in terms of solutions," he said.
During his speech at the assembly, the Platform's spokesperson, Manuel Hernández, argued that now is the timeto "be smart" and "know how to manage the strength"that the group has gained in recent weeks "to deliver the second blow, which is coming."
"We need to get even more organized in the provincesand prepare ourselves so that, in a short period of time, we can come back stronger," Hernández explained to attendees minutes before the show of hands vote.
Before the results were known, the Platform's spokesperson announced that the strike "was called with certain objectives, anduntil those objectives are achieved, it will not be called off."
With the "pause" agreed upon this Saturday morning, the Platform seeks to organize itself even further to"represent workers." Along these lines, Hernández has announced to transporters that they will enter into talks with several associations that "wanted to leave that mafia-like Committee (referring to the CNTC)."
Likewise, in the coming days, they will develop the mechanism for interested parties to join the Platform, andwill draft a document signed and stamped with their transport cards.
News from 20 Minutos
