The autonomous transporters and SMEs grouped in the National Platform for the Defense of Transport have decided to call off on Monday night the indefinite strike that had been called this weekend.
In a brief statement broadcast on the networks after nine at night, the Platform assures that "the national transport strike is called off."
Just a few hours before, Manuel Hernández, president of the Platform, had assured that their mobilizations were continuing, despite the "fake news" that suggested that they had been called off.
The group began an indefinite strike on Saturday to denounce the conditions of the sector, coinciding with protests throughout Spain by farmers and ranchers.
"The strike is still active in all its aspects. In fact, today we are informing many colleagues who are going to unload their trucks and join this strike," the leader of the platform said tomorrow in a video published on the social networks.
In the statement released tonight, the Platform adds that "in the next few hours" it will give "the corresponding statements and explanations."
This is the second time that this Platform calls for an indefinite strike. The first time was in March 2022, when - despite not having the support of the employers' associations that bring together the large companies in the sector - it promoted a twenty-day protest that put the country's distribution chain in check.
On February 5, he announced that he had decided to join the farmers' protests by calling for an indefinite national strike starting that Saturday.
This call, to join the protests of farmers and ranchers, was open to all movements and sectors that considered it appropriate, as indicated at the time by the convening platform, which also requested the support and participation of civil society.
That same day, the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puente, said that any strike called at that time in the transport sector was "absolutely unjustified."
The Spanish Confederation of Freight Transport (CETM) insisted on continuing to support dialogue and negotiation with the Ministry of Transport and Mobility "to address the problems that threaten the sector" of road freight transport.
