» Government makes a deal with Spanish lorry drivers, but the strike continues
 The Spanish Ministry for Development and the CNTC, the National Commission for Road Transport, reached an agreement last night on 54 measures to improve the conditions for lorry drivers. However the agreement does not mean an end to the strike action, now in its third day, as it has not been supported by the two rival lorry drivers groups, Fenadismer and Confedetrans who called the current stoppage.
The Minister for Development, Magdalena Álvarez, has said that the new agreement has not yet been signed, because they are ‘open’ to the to other lorry driver associations joining the deal. She said the Government was not prepared to negotiate a deal association by association.
However the new deal still falls short of the main demand of the drivers on strike – for the establishment of a minimum tariff, with Magdalena Álvarez saying that such a tariff would be illegal under EU legislation, but the CNTC welcomed the new deal as ‘realistic and possible’.
The Minister said the new deal was supported by 82% of the industry, and had come about after the implication of seven ministers. She said it had the intention of ‘restructuring the balance and solvency of an activity which has been affected by the increase in the price of fuel and by a decrease in demand’.
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