The team will demonstrate in the streets of Bilbao this morning. A total of three strike days have been declared this February and another three with breaks of four hours per shift.
The template Bilbobus will be called up on Tuesday the 13th for a new 24 hour strikein the context of the mobilizations carried out to demand the collective agreement.
They were scheduled during this month of February six days of mobilization, three of which are 24 hours – the first, last day the 5th, this Tuesday and the one on February 27 -. The rest are breaks of four hours per shift.
Besides the strike, the workers will manifest again through the streets of Bilbao in a march, which will last from 7:30 am to 11:30 am, which will start from Plaza Levante in San Ignacio and will pass, among others, the Bilbao City Hall.
These are the minimum services that have been established:
The Bilbobus works council has warned that there may be one in March “substantial increase” in unemployment and mobilizations, as negotiations are at an impasse. According to the president of the commission, José Fernández, there has been no contact with the Bilbao City Council and the company and they are “in the hands of the technicians”.
Indefinite strike in Tuvisa
Meanwhile, the strike continues on the city buses of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Today, Tuesday, is the day the second working day of the indefinite strike started on Saturday. Yesterday, according to the unions, monitoring was 100%, although Tuvisa limited the strike’s success to 75.6% among the entire workforce. There are established minimum services of 30%.
The mayor, Maider Etxebarria (PSE-EE), accompanied by the PNV councilor and president of Tuvisa, Iñaki Gurtubai, explained that negotiations are still open and that they will meet again this week with the commission, although she has admitted that there is still no date for that meeting. For its part, the committee believes that the city council and Tuvisa are “artificially delaying the conflict” because the workers sent them an email on Friday requesting a new meeting and since then the committee has received “absolutely nothing from them received”.
The indefinite strike in Tuvisa is preceded by a series of strikes and mobilizations that began in December 2023. The workers are demanding that the buses lost since the pandemic be recovered, more be purchased to provide quality service and an effective number of working days be achieved.
Source: EITB
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