The staff of Tuvisa, the municipal company that manages Vitoria’s city buses, has accepted the latest proposal from the management that meets some of their demands and has therefore decided to end the indefinite strike, which started on February 10.
The template by Tuvisa, the municipal company that manages Vitoria’s city buses, has accepted the latest management proposal which has accepted some of their demands and has therefore decided to end the indefinite strike, which started on February 10.
More than 300 Tuvisa workers were gathered this Sunday to vote on whether to accept the points in Tuvisa management’s latest labor proposal after months of negotiations.
As explained by committee sources, This was necessary to maintain the strikeas has happened on other occasions, a percentage of at least one 70% of the votes are against the agreement so that the decision can be supported by a large majority.
Finally they are counted 113 votes in favor of the agreement (41.6%) And 152 votes againstwhat does one mean 56%. Because the 70% negative votes needed to maintain the strike have not been reached, the strike that started over a week ago has been called off.
Tomorrow, Monday, the city bus fleet will function normally again. For more than a week, 30% of the usual services have been active, i.e. 100% of the minimum services.
The indefinite strike in Tuvisa was declared after negotiations stalled following a series of strikes and mobilizations that began in December 2023.
Among other things, the workers asked for a real signing system, more buses, the implementation of new lines, more permanent contracts, the end of privatizations in various services and a calendar to negotiate the agreement.
According to the strike committee, although Tuvisa’s latest proposal represents “significant” progress on labor demands, “the issue of transfer has been wrongly closed.”
In this sense, they have recalled that at the end of November the company would “cut twelve jobs and tighten the working conditions of employees”, for which they expressed their satisfaction with what has been achieved and what they have done. thanked the citizens of Vitoria for his “affection and understanding”.
The ELA union, in turn, defended in the meeting the continuation of the strike “in the interest of reaching a better agreement,” as the city council “has not provided concrete solutions for the effective signing of the workers.”
Source: EITB
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