It was striking that the Government had negotiated the cancellation of the five-day strike by Renfe and Adif without the assistance of the Generalitat, which, after all, is the Administration that will have the majority in the new public mixed company which Rodalies will manage. The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puenteexplained this Friday on Rac1 that first thing on Thursday called the ‘president’ to detail his roadmap in the meeting that he had scheduled in the afternoon with the railway unions. Always according to the minister, Pere Aragones He gave the ‘ok’ to his proposals.
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Palau sources confirm the call: “The minister explained that he would propose to the unions a negotiation space to guarantee working conditionsas we have also said from day one.” Puente promised the unions to keep the jobs as they are, with all their current conditions. He also guaranteed them labor mobility between the different operators, something that had also been repeatedly stated. behind the agreement to which PSOE and ERC They arrived on November 3 as an essential condition for the independentists to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government.
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Aragonès reminded the minister that any agreement with the unions “had to respect the transfer agreement“, something to which, according to the Government, he committed himself. A few hours later, and just two days after taking office, Puente managed to calm the railway waters and avoid the five days of strike that would have forced cancel 1,550 passenger trains and almost a thousand of merchandise. The threat of mobilizationsHowever, it is still on the table, since the unions have given the Government three weeks to specify in black and white the promises regarding the maintenance of the workforce’s working conditions.