These are workers from the Bizkaibus Busturia operators Lea Artibai Bus (BLB) and Ezkerraldea Meatzaldea Bus (EMB), who will demonstrate in Bilbao in two columns that will leave at 08:00.
The workers of the Bizkaibus operators busturia Lea Artibai Bus (BLB) and Ezkerraldea Meatzaldea Bus (EMB) They will intensify their mobilizations starting this Thursday, with a 24-hour strike in which they will demonstrate in Bilbao to demand a agreement “just”.
As explained by the unions, the workers of the Busturia Lea Artibai operator will begin the route of the demonstration in Juan de Garay street, at 08:00, while those of the Ezkerraldea and Meatzaldea lines will leave, at the same time , from EITB. The two marches will come together at the end, around 9:30 am, in front of the Foral Palace.
The president of the EMB committee, Juan Carlos González (CCOO), has assured that the workers feel “stronger than ever, with more desire than ever to go to the end” in their mobilizations and has criticized that it is “insulting” that “no one from the company or the Provincial Council has made a move “. “If they think that, with this inconsistency, we are going to take a step back, they are wrong,” she assured.
Both BLB and EMB staff are planning another 24-hour strike for the next day December 21coinciding with the day of Santo Tomás, and, together with the workers of Vectalia Enkarterri, prepare for that day “a great mobilization in Bilbao”.
UGT highlighted that the stoppages and strikes at the three Bizkaibus concessionaires are having “majority support from the workers”, which in the case of BLB and EMB, from the group Alsa Transitiahave not updated their working conditions since December 2020. For their part, the workforce Vectalia Enkarterri “It has been 10 months without updating salaries”.
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Demonstrations intensify in Bizkaibus
Tomorrow, December 1, a 24-hour strike at Busturia Lea Artibai and on the buses of the Left Bank, with demonstrations in Bilbao#SomosUGT#WithUGTGanas#JOIN UPhttps://t.co/ZQX6bKuzXf pic.twitter.com/Vi2nFDW7Sx— UGT Euskadi (@UGT_Euskadi) November 30, 2022
For his part, the deputy of Transport and Sustainable Mobility in BizkaiaMiguel Ángel Gómez Viar, has urged the concessionaire companies and the workers of the Bizkaibus lines in which “legitimate” strikes have been called “to reach an agreement and the sooner the better”.
The deputy has appeared before the plenary session of the General Assemblies of Bizkaia to answer a question from Elkarrekin Bizkaia, who has asked the Provincial Government to get involved in resolving the labor dispute.
Gómez Viar has specified that his Department “cannot and should not intervene in any way in the collective bargaining between the company and the social part”.
Source: Eitb
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