After six hours of negotiationhe works council and the UTE that manage Bicing have not reached an agreement this Monday to call off the indefinite strike which starts this Tuesday at seven in the morning. The mobilization affects all shifts and all public bike workers: distribution and bicycle redistribution in van, mechanics and maintenance of stations. The system will work, but in a way unpredictable, without even being able to guarantee its correct development. That’s why the staff’s advice is very clear: “There will be few bikes, it’s better to look for other options.”
As there is no bicycle distribution, users who do not look for an alternative mobility Many stations are likely to be full and many empty stations. Some time ago, without so many electric bikes, the difference would be very clear between sea bikes and mountain bikes due to the fact of having to pedal up or down. Now it is not so clear, but those that are most in demand are They will be full and without alternative. Likewise, it is likely that mountain neighborhoods will soon run out of bikes.
To the not be an essential service for citizens, as happens with the metro or the bus when there is a strike, the Department of Labor has not dictated minimum services. This being the case, it is possible that this Tuesday things will go more or less well in the first hours of the day. But soon all the bikes will be on demand function and not from the need to availability. It may be that in the afternoon there is a some rebalancing, but it’s a mystery. It will, however, be a good experiment to see to what extent, without the help of vans, the system is able to balance between the morning rush hour and the afternoon rush hour.
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Neither will they work mechanicsso broken bikes will not be repaired and they will not be taken to the workshop either. Yes it will work Customer Servicewhich is in the hands of the BSM public company and not from the dealer, the UTE Pedalem Barcelonain which they are PBSCwhich is basically in charge of providing the bikes, and Ferrovialwhich through its subsidiary Serveo It is the one who manages the service and who maintains the conflict with the staff, in which basically a salary increase issue is discussed.
The Bicing squad is made up of some 150 people, of which just over 10, the committee claims, voted against mobilizing. The company offers a gradual increase, year by year, to reach the fifth year with a rise of 3,050 euros, while the workers are already asking for 1,500 euros more per year from the start. “A world still separates us“, said a representative of the CGT before entering the last mediation meeting in Treball. The meeting began at four in the afternoon and ended after ten at night without both parties having reached an agreement to avoid the indefinite strike.