The transportation strike convened by the Platform for the Defense of the Freight Transport Sector on the 14th, another day begins -the ninth- of strikes and pickets, which are generating incidents and punctual problems of shortages and is causing some companies, such as Danone or Heineken, warn that you risk a supply break.
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, louis planesstated this morning that the strike is putting agri-food supply at risk and that if no attempt is made to build bridges and agreements among all, The situation is going to be very complicated.
“The Government made a very solid offer to respond to the problems of the transport sector and a good constructive disposition is also needed on the part of all”, Planas expressed on Cadena SER.
The first general strike without unions
Javier Caraballo
A real general strike has broken out in the streets of the socialist government, more forceful and devastating than those called for one day, in which activity stops and the next day everything returns to normal
Planas has shown concern regarding the supply, acknowledging that there have been “incidents”, but assuring that the functioning in the markets has been “almost normal” and that the lack of products in supermarkets has been “on time” and influenced not only by the strike, but also because “purchases have been much higher, up to 20%”.
From the first hour of this Tuesday, fifty carriers who support the indefinite strike once morest the rise in fuel prices are concentrated in the accesses to the port of Barcelonawhere they act as information pickets. Most of the truckers who have arrived at the port have given up access to the facilities ports in the presence of these pickets.
The stoppages worsen from this Tuesday: several employers join the strike of carriers
CE/Agencies
Fenadismer, Fetransa and Feintra have decided to stop, as the small carriers do, due to the lack of specificity in the aid promised by Moncloa
The pickets stop the trucks that are arriving at the cargo terminals to convince the drivers to join the strike called at the state level without incidents or vehicle retentions so far, according to sources from the carriers. mobilized.
The National Police and the Civil Guard have detained until this Tuesday 54 people and investigated another 399 in the incidents recorded since the beginning of the strike. What’s more, have escorted 4,519 convoys trucks, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior.
The convening Platform, which says that it represents the 85% of the sector, intends to maintain the strike until the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda is able to take sufficient measures to redirect the current crisis situation that the sector is experiencing as a result of the increase in fuel prices. And in the last few hours, they have joined, following the meeting with the Government that concluded with an unspecified aid packageother associations such as Fenadismer, Fetransa and Feintra.
The Government, for its part, has opened its hand so that transport companies that do not support the transport strike can mitigate, with more hours behind the wheel, the impact of those who have supported the stoppages. Thus, the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has issued a resolution by which makes rest and driving periods more flexible: the maximum daily driving limit of 9 hours is replaced by one of 11 hours and the daily rest requirements are reduced from 11 hours to one of 9 hours.
Mercamadrid recovers its activity
The activity in Mercamadrid developed this morning 90% average of a Tuesday of the month of March, following recovering compared to the same day last week, when the transporters’ strike caused half of the merchandise to enter.
This has been confirmed to Efe by sources from the main fresh food wholesale market in Madrid, where, on the other hand, it has been found that it has remained some difficulty in the reshipment of products to other areas of the country.
The new social unrest: protests grow outside traditional unions and employers
Mark Lemma
The carriers’ strike is succeeding despite the opposition of the institutional social agents. Social networks are key to the coordination of protests and pickets are their tool of force
On Tuesday, March 15, the second day of the indefinite strike called by the Platform for the Defense of the Freight Transport Sector, Mercamadrid only received 50% of the normal volume of products, with special emphasis on the fruit and vegetable warehouse, where this percentage was reduced to 40%. The arrival figures of supply trucks were recovering at the end of the week
Danone has warned that in maximum period of 24 hours will be forced to temporarily interrupt your activity both in its four plants in Spain for dairy products, and in the three for natural mineral water, as a result of the stoppage of transport and in the event that an immediate solution is not achieved.
“If an agreement is not reached in the next few hours, Danone will be forced to make the drastic decision to interrupt the milk collection process, and as a consequence, the production process in its factories and subsequent transfer of the finished product to the food distribution chains. This will cause the interruption of supply of both natural mineral water and dairy products nationwide,” the company said in a statement.
In the same line it has been shown Heineken Spainwho has stated this Tuesday his “major concern” due to the impact that the strike is having on its operations, on the business of its hotel and commercial clients. The company has warned that its main customers might be left without service.
In a statement, the company, which produces brands such as crossfieldargues that if the situation continues, it will be seen unable to serve its products to commercial surfaces, bars and restaurants“and to stock up on raw materials, due to the violent pickets that prevent the normal operations of the company.”