The government will continue dialogue with carriers this weekend to avoid an indefinite strike from Monday.

Government This weekend will continue the dialogue with the transport unions, which the day before announced an indefinite strike from next Monday, July 4, due to inattention to their list of claims.

This was announced in RPP News by the Minister of Culture. Alexander Salaswho claimed that his cabinet colleague, the Minister of Transport and Communications, John Barranzuelareceived trade union representatives at his sector headquarters to present government proposals to avoid unemployment.

“Today there was a meeting with the minister at the base of the Ministry of Transport. The dialogue continues, the dialogue is intense, and I do not rule out that it will continue on Saturday and Sunday. I believe that although the demands, demands, requests related to this international crisis that we are experiencing are true and we must listen to them, we must also appeal to the fact that they can accept the counteroffers made. . executive branch,” he said. Rotor of air-night edition.

Improving the quality of transportation

Regarding the citizens’ request for better public transport services, whose unions have declared their support for the forceful measures, Minister Salas said that there are already state institutions responsible for regulating both freight traffic and inter-provincial and urban transport. At the same time, he stressed that users have every right to demand better service.

“I think that of course there is a lot of effort for a policy to improve the quality of transport in both sectors and that of course we must continue to work (…) If carriers make demands at this point, we are somehow reviewing what goes hand in hand hand with this policy of quality assurance and improvement of what is Transport system as a national policy.

“This is something we are working on and of course users have the absolute right to demand better service in all these areas, so we are moving forward step by step and now the most important thing is that they accept the counter offer to be able to facilitate and reassure country in this matter,” he added.

Announcement of indefinite unemployment

The day before, President of the Guild of Transport and Logistics (GTL) Giovani Ten, announced that the transport unions would go on an indefinite strike from Monday, July 4, due to the lack of attention to their list of demands. According to him, the constant change of ministers influenced the dialogue processes.

“Since November, a backlog of lawsuits has accumulated. None of the issues (34) were resolved Executive despite the fact that they signed protocols with us signed by the majority of ministers, and so far we have not had an answer to all these signed protocols and transport problems,” he said.

The measure of strength will be observed by freight carriers, urban transport, tourist transport, collective cars, taxi drivers, motorcycle taxis, river transport drivers, domestic and foreign drivers. He added that all of these conditions are part of a union alliance of more than 380 unions across the country.