After several hours of negotiation in the context of a mandatory conciliation following the measure of force that resulted in the strike of the bus service in Neuquén capitalan agreement was signed to respond to the claims of the drivers represented in UTA and it was announced that the units would begin to circulate this Wednesday first thing in the morning.
According to As agreed, the service on January 18 would take to the streets of Neuquén with 40 units in good condition and five more will be incorporated in the late shift to reach 50 over the weekend.
within the deal It is stipulated that the municipality is responsible for reinforcing the routes run by the Indalo company with units from the Pehuenches company. It will also manage with Provincial Security and Police carrying out control operations and company of the units in the branches and headers.
On behalf of the company Indalo SA, Favio Violante and for the municipality, the Undersecretary of Transportation was present Mauro Espinoza and the general coordinator Jorge Anibal. As representatives of the Union Tranviarios Automotor UTA, Javier Soto and José Pérez participated, among other union leaders.
From Monday, at 5:00 p.m., the bus drivers of Autobuses Neuquén they demanded more security and since then no units circulated in the streets. Con less than 27 groups, the drivers assured that they cannot go out to work.
The claim arises from what they determined as a “wave of insecurity”, when on Monday followingnoon they denounced having been threatened by passengersand also ensure having suffered acts of insecurity on at least eight occasions. But this is not the only problem, it is that according to the union secretary of the UTA, Gabriel Ceballos, there are few units to work. “Here there are 27 cars, we cannot like this, we are going to have a worse time than yesterday,” he assured.
The meeting that unblocked the conflict began yesterday, at 14, in the Undersecretary of Labor, together with the drivers and the company Autobuses Neuquén.
The Undersecretary of Transportation Mauro Espinosa, had communicated on Radio CALF “initially it is a work table where the availability of units that are needed will be made.”
The transition of companies has made different factors, human resources and mechanical workshop were affected in the process, we must urge them to fulfill their role, “said Espinosa.
The undersecretary said that there are responsibilities on the part of the operators that they have to make available in order to function. In addition, “the granting power has to be with a firm gaze so that at the moment that there is a shortage, the units are replaced and if not, sanction«.
The claim for the small number of groups
According to Ceballos commented, in Neuquén, there should be around 120 working units, although they assure that with 50 cars they would go to work. «If we go out with 27 we will not give enough, the few people who are going to be able to travel are going to be crowded and the rest they are going to grab it with the drivers“he counted.
Drivers demand Let the broken buses be fixed. «With spare parts it would be fixed, but it wouldn’t be immediate” mentioned. In this sense, he indicated that it might take a day or more to fix the units y take to the streets. Although he assured that until now they are not fixing the units.
Speaking to “Who Said Summer”for BLACK RIVER RADIOCeballos assured “the company is not complying with what it signed, we are running out of tools because they are already gone«. This is because On February 1, the company will cease service and the units of Expreso Tigre Iguazú SA and Koko SRL will begin to operate. the firms that won the last award.
Listen to Gabriel Ceballos union secretary of UTA Neuquén in “Who said summer” by RÍO NEGRO RADIO:
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