The merchandise department of the National Committee of the Road transport (CNTC), an organization that brings together companies in the sector with the Government, rejected this Monday the first proposal from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda for the new Transport Chain Law. After analyzing the draft, the CNTC has transmitted an “unfavorable” opinion, considering that it represents “a step backwards” in terms of the terms that both parties had been developing until now during the negotiations.
The representatives of the CNTC ask the Government for an alternative wording that insists on the basic principles set by the employers: “The CNTC is not going to accept the wording of a rule that allows the Government to justify formal compliance with its commitments but that results inapplicable in practice,” he said in a statement. The lack of agreement with the employer and the request for CCOO joining the negotiation of the transport labor framework in Spain opens the possibility of conflict on the roads in the coming weeks.
The transportation dispute it is largely maintained in the face of the complexity of the representative bodies. The position of the bosses collides with that of the salaried workers of the sector. An example is the position of the CCOO, which on Monday also protested against the negotiations carried out by the Government with businessmen and the self-employed. According to CCOO, Ministry of Transport, employers and Platform (employers) negotiate fraudulent salary costs in the transport of goods by road. According to the union, the business lobby embodied in the National Committee for Road Transport and other organizations are negotiating a royal decree on the transport chain, “with conditions that do not respect current legislation, while refusing to give entry to trade union organizations such as the CCOO, which demands the convocation of a social table on the matter”.
According to CCOO, it is being considered that a driver of a vehicle weighing more than 3,500 kg has to load and unload if it carries a fractional load. “You want to compute the wage cost of drivers and drivers at the fraud price and not at agreement wages to set the fair price for transport services,” CCOO denounces.
The workers’ union considers that the prices must cover the operating costs at a time when fuel bills have become more expensive, but that these costs must also include the cost of wages, social security contributions, salaries and diet.
The Road Transport Observatory, endorsed by the Ministry of Transport, is the result of a working group formed solely by employers such as the National Road Transport Committee (CNTC), the Association of Manufacturers and Distributors, the Shippers Association and the Association of Loading Companies. Said Observatory does not collect the salary costs derived from the application of collective agreements, but rather the salaries that companies in the sector are currently paying.
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According to sources from the Ministry of Transport, the initial discussion document establishes a different personnel cost depending on the type of vehicle when drivers charge the same regardless of the vehicle they drive. CCOO criticizes the system for setting working hours, depending on the type of vehicle with annual shifts higher than that set by the collective agreement of the sector.
Another element of conflict is that an activity bonus calculated at the price per kilometer is computed when European regulations prohibit remuneration per kilometer.