The strike day will affect the buses operating on the left bank, mining zone, Txorierri, Encartaciones, Busturia Lea Artibai, Mungialdea. The unions complain that, despite two months of mobilizations, negotiations to renew the agreement have “stopped”.
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Strike 24 hours in four of the five concessionaires of bizkaibus for today, the day of the Fair of Saint Thomas. The interruption will affect the concessionaires offering service in the Left Bank, Mining Zone, Txorierri, Encartaciones, Busturia Lea Artibai, Mungialdea.
The staff of Ezkerraldea Meatzaldea Bizkaibus (EMB), Busturia Lea Artibai, Vectalia Txorierri, Vectalia Enkarterri have not updated their agreement and the unions condemned the negotiations as “stopped” despite mobilizing for two months.
Workers of the four concessionaires will demonstrate in Bilbao this morning. Specifically, those of Vectalia Txorierri and Vectalia Enkarterri will march from Plaza San Pedro to the Palace of the Provincial Council in Bilbao, where the marches of Ezkerraldea Meatzaldea (EMB) will arrive, who will leave La Casilla (8:00 am) and that of Busturia Lea Artibai (BLB), which departs from Torre Urizar. At 10:30 am, they all gather in front of the Foral Palace.
As explained by UGT Euskadi, Vectalia Txorierri, which carries travelers from Mungialdea, Txorierri and the airport to Bilbao, was the last concessionaire to join the demonstrations, due to the employers’ equally “tough” position at the negotiating table.
In addition, he has indicated that together with Vectalia Enkarterri, EMB and Busturia Lea Artibai, who have been protesting for two months, they will prepare joint mobilizations from January, “until the companies negotiate and the Provincial Council takes responsibility for the situation.” of public transport”.
“No one has contacted the committee after two months of strike,” warned the president of the BLB works council, Oscar López, who, after regretting the inconvenience caused by the strike, has assured that they do not “have no choice because after two months there is no news from the company or from the Diputación”.
Therefore, the only Bizkaibus who will perform service this Wednesday is the Durangaldea is advancingwhere a wage increase around the CPI has been agreed in the agreement for this year and, as UGT recalled, union representatives of the other four concessionaires in Bizkaia have demanded the same wage increase from companies and the Provincial Council.
The UGT representatives claim the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, as responsible for the Bizkaibus service, to mediate so that negotiations are “in good faith” and salary increases are agreed around the CPI, “so that there is no discrimination between the employees of the different concessionaires” . They assure that if they do not come to an agreement, they will meet again intensification of strikes and strikes in January.
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Source: EITB
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