22 days later, the companies and freelancers dealing with containers in the port of Bilbao have reached an agreement that will allow the reactivation of the activity.
The strike of the autonomous carriers working in the port of Bilbao was canceled in the early hours of Tuesday afternoon, after reaching individual agreements between the truck drivers and the companies that outsource them to carry the freight.
The resignation came as this Monday began the fourth week of the indefinite strike of self-employed truck drivers dedicated to the transport of containers who had joined the strike promoted by the Platform for the Defense of the Road Transport Sector, initially supported in Euskadi by the Hiru union, which was already off the hook last week.
“The strike could not be extended over time because as we were already working in the rest of Spain’s ports, we were now doing damage to Bilbao,” said sources of the latest redoubt of transport strikers who remained in the ports. EFE out. Port facilities of Bilbao.
In this way, from this Tuesday afternoon, a large number of trucks have gathered at the entrance of the port to access the facilities and collect their cargo, and it is expected that by noon all trucks will have returned to container cargo ships, which will allow the port of Bilbao will resume its normal activities after 22 and a half days of total unemployment
Although the terms of the agreement that allowed the strike to be declared were not disclosed, the contracting companies were willing to increase tariffs by 12% and the monthly revision of diesel costs and the annual update with reference to the CPI.
Some 700 trucks are destined for the port of Bilbao for container freight transport, for which 33 companies are engaged in this activity, and another 150-200 for general cargo and steel products.
The latter already started work again last Friday, April 1, after making agreements with the companies that outsource them to carry out the freight.
As long as the strike lasts, 25% of the containers arriving by ship in the port of Bilbao have left for their destination via the railway.
Source: EITB
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