Called by CCOO and UGT, the bus drivers of Hego Euskal Herria have carried out a full day strike. Goods and health are not to be mobilized, but those for the transport of travellers, including schoolchildren.
His main demand is that the retirement age be brought forward to 60 years. The ELA and LAB unions have not supported the call, which is called at Spanish state level, and have asked bus drivers not to strike.
The main incidence of the strike is being recorded in Bizkaibus, Bilbobus and the DBus of Donostia-San Sebastián, as reported by URL0. A total of 11,000 bus drivers are called to strike in Hego Euskal Herria.
Minimum services
In Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, by order of the Basque Government, the minimum services are being 30%, with special attention to the hours of entry and exit from the workplaces. Also in Navarre, with special emphasis, minimum services have been set up at 40% and in the urban bus of the Comarca of Pamplona at 60%.
The Donostia-San Sebastian bus service is being hit hardest, according to the public media. These are lines 17, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 31, 33, 38, 41, 42, 43 and 46. However, in addition to fulfilling 30% of the minimum services, there have been six new bus lines on tomorrow’s turn.
In Bilbao, for its part, according to the City Council, the strike has been monitored at 31%, that is, 69% of bus drivers are working, with twice the minimum services, and in Bizkaia, in general, it is at 40%.
In the urban transport of Vitoria-Gasteiz, according to EiTB, the buses of Tener circulate "almost normally" in the city. According to City Hall sources, of the 72 invited drivers, 6 have joined the call for strike.
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