The National Transport Advocacy Platform, which brings together thousands of self-employed road hauliers and SMEs, accused the Government this Saturday. “Get them into conflict because they won’t sit back and listen.”and called this afternoon to confirm and comply with the decision Begin an indefinite strike.
In a video published on social networks this Saturday, the head of the platform said: Manuel Hernandez, criticized his attitude National Committee for the Transport of Goods by Road (CNTC)The body that deals with the Government in which the sector is not represented and does not support the strike.
“Big organizations did not bring anyone together”Hernández, who also criticized the Executive, although he maintained that the conflict did not depend on which party was in government, said: “It doesn’t matter to me.”
This afternoon the platform called for a “national” meeting in front of the Metropolitan stadium in Madrid at 17:00. It approved the decision to paralyze activity “along with the primary sector” indefinitely.
Criticisms towards Yolanda Díaz
“Because we do not sit down to listen and do not take common sense measures, they drag us into conflict, they sit with sales,” questioned Hernández, who is the second vice president of the government and specifically criticized some of the minister’s statements regarding the agrarian conflict. “Loss Yolanda Diaz“.
The president of this platform adds: “This is said by a young lady who has been oiling her boots all her life in the countryside beyond paripé, when they had to pick up plastic balls from the beaches of Galicia.”
Call for support from citizens
Hernández insisted in the video that the decisions taken this afternoon “must be followed,” saying: “There should be no conflict between us”. Likewise, he called on citizens to “be understanding and support us” and all small freelancers in all sectors to join the strike. “We don’t want to get into conflict, but they are provoking us, pimping us (…) leaving us no other alternative,” he added.
Without support in the industry
The group, which encouraged a 20-day strike that will take control of the distribution chain in March 2022, took this step Without major organizations in the industry. The Spanish National Federation of Transport Associations (Fenadismer), which brings together more than 32,000 transport companies and more than 60,000 vehicles, reached an agreement at an extraordinary congress this week. not the second.
According to Fenadismer, who is represented on the National Committee for Transport of Goods by Road, the sector “not in the same critical situation right now “It happened in March 2022 as a result of the brutal increase in fuel prices at that time.”