Metro Bilbao estimates monitoring at 20% and the unions assure that there have only been minimum services

Euskaraz irakurri: Metro Bilbaoren arabera % 20ko jaripena izan du, sindikatuen arabera, zerbitzu minimoak baino ez dira izan

The first stoppages summoned by the unions ELA, CIM and UGT for today Wednesday from 06:30 to 09:30 they have had a monitoring, according to Metro Bilbao of 20% of the workers with a work shift assigned at that time. More specifically, according to the company, 48 people out of a total of 238 with work shifts have supported it.

Metro Bilbao has also reported that 7 train runs additional have completed minimum services of 30% decreed by the Basque Government, “maintaining at all times the right to strike and the right to work”.

Follow-up of stoppages in Metro Bilbao: 20.168%? 48 people out of a total of 238 with working hours

These are the official data of the follow-up of today’s stoppages in the entire company? pic.twitter.com/ZUfEtdTtqx

– metro bilbao (@metrobilbaoeus) June 29, 2022

The unions, for their part, have shown very satisfied with the follow-up of the first strike called today in Metro Bilbao, since only the trains marked as minimum service have circulated. Follow-up in the rest of the company has also been “successful,” according to the unions. In the afternoon, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., a new strike has been called.

Union representatives have denounced, however, that “the management of the company is transferring manipulated data of unemployment, by including in them the minimum services. In addition, the attitude, which borders on coercion, towards temporary staff is unacceptable,” and they are considering taking action against the company.

Extensive follow-up in the first strike of the two called today in Metro Bilbao to unblock the negotiation of the agreement – https://t.co/n6kugIjKJp

— ELA Metro Bilbao (@ELAMetroBilbao) June 29, 2022

Metro Bilbao has expressed its astonishment at the statements made by the ELA, CIM and UGT unions, speaking about the “mass monitoring” without concluding the strike day this morning and therefore, “without verifying reliable information or providing a single piece of information support them.”

Shutdown calendar

800 Metro Bilbao workers were called to second stoppagesduring the day on Wednesday, from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., and from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.to demand progress in the collective agreement negotiations. These new stoppages are added to those that are being carried out by the machinists of the underground, and that they are called to stop also today, Wednesday, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m..

In a statement, ELA, CIM and UGT have denounced that the negotiation of the agreement is “totally blocked, and the Directorate is constantly changing the working conditions for different groups, even worsening the service.”

In addition to today’s work stoppages, the three union centrals have warned that, if this continues, there will be a new strike call for July 1, when Metro Bilbao train drivers are also called to stop, in this case, 7 :00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The 200 train drivers of Metro Bilbao have been holding strikes, called by the Semaf union, on Wednesdays and Fridays, since last the 22nd, during peak hours, to demand that the company’s management “flee from the ‘low cost’ model that is implementing, and bet on the safety and professionalization of the driving group”.

Semaf has denounced that “there is great discomfort among the train drivers of Metro Bilbao, since the company wants to introduce measures from Third World areas, such as, for example, that at any time a ‘non-driver’ drives a train to alleviate mismanagement which has led to a staff shortage”.