These are workers from the Bizkaibus Busturia operators Lea Artibai Bus (BLB) and Ezkerraldea Meatzaldea Bus (EMB), who will demonstrate in Bilbao in two columns departing at 08:00.
The workers of the Bizkaibus operators busturia Lea Artibai Bus (BLB) and Ezkerraldea Meatzaldea Bus (EMB) They will intensify their mobilizations from next Thursday with a 24-hour strike where they will demonstrate in Bilbao for a agreement “only”.
As explained by the unions, the workers of the Busturia Lea Artibai operator will start the route of the demonstration in Juan de Garay street at 08:00, while those of the Ezkerraldea and Meatzaldea lines will depart from EITB at the same time. The two marches converge at the end, around 9:30 am, in front of the Foral Palace.
The President of the EMB Commission, Juan Carlos González (CCOO), has assured that the workers feel “stronger than ever, with more desire than ever to go to the end” in their mobilizations and has criticized that it is “offensive” that “no one from the company or the Provincial Council has to move”. “If they think that we are going to take a step back with this passivity, they are wrong,” he assured.
Both BLB and EMB employees are planning another 24-hour strike for the next day 21st of Decembercoinciding with the day of Santo Tomás, and together with the workers of Vectalia Enkarterri are preparing “a great mobilization in Bilbao” for that day.
UGT stressed that the strikes and strikes at the three Bizkaibus concessionaires “get majority support from the workers”, which in the case of BLB and EMB, from the group Alsa Transitiahave not updated their terms of employment since December 2020. The staff for their part Vectalia Enkarterri “It’s been 10 months without updating salaries”.
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The demonstrations are increasing in Bizkaibus
Tomorrow, December 1, a 24-hour strike in Busturia Lea Artibai and left bank buses, with demonstrations in Bilbao#SomosUGT#WithUGTGanas#JOINhttps://t.co/ZQX6bKuzXf pic.twitter.com/Vi2nFDW7Sx— UGT Euskadi (@UGT_Euskadi) November 30, 2022
For his part, the deputy of Transport and sustainable mobility in BizkaiaMiguel Ángel Gómez Viar, has urged concessionaires and workers on the Bizkaibus lines calling for “legitimate” strikes “to reach an agreement and the sooner the better”.
The deputy has appeared before the plenary session of the Bizkaia General Assemblies to answer a question from Elkarrekin Bizkaia, who has asked the provincial government to get involved in resolving the labor dispute.
Gómez Viar has specified that his department “cannot and must not intervene in no way in the collective bargaining between the company and the social part”.
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Source: EITB
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