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Over 200 Drivers Demand Early Retirement at 60 in Front of Alicante's Subdelegation

Over 200 Drivers Demand Early Retirement at 60 in Front of Alicante's Subdelegation

Transport sector workers, who went on a general strike this Monday, are requesting an early retirement age.

Óscar Bartual Bardisa

Alicante

Lunes, 28 de octubre 2024, 14:10

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La jornada de huelga del transporte de pasajeros is complicating the day for bus users in Alicante. With long queues and endless waits, they see several buses pass by the stop and continue on as they are full.

And the city and metropolitan area buses have minimum services of around 40% during normal hours and 55% during peak hours. These minimum services have prevented more than one Alicante resident from arriving on time to work, school, or university.

This Monday, alongside the strike, a demonstration was held in front of the Government Subdelegation by bus drivers and transporters to demand early retirement at 60, the main demand for this general strike across Spain, fully supported by Alicante bus staff.

About 200 people gathered in Plaza de la Muntanyeta with banners and megaphones in what is the first of the scheduled strike days. If no agreement is reached, as has happened with the freight transport sector, workers will strike again on November 11, 28, and 19, and December 5, 9, and 23, the deadline before declaring an indefinite strike.

The major unions, Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) and UGT, insist that the call is the result of "the employers' refusal to sign the agreement that entails opening a file with Social Security to bring forward the retirement age to 60 through the application of reduction coefficients." A necessary step to study this request.

CCOO explains that age is "a determining factor in the loss and decrease of motor, sensory, and cognitive abilities of professional drivers" and they assure that this makes it "unfeasible" for most to continue driving at 67, so "many are forced to retire early for health reasons."

The CCOO Federation of Citizen Services criticizes the limit set at 67 years: "if this age is already excessive in general, it poses a double risk in professional transport, because the driver is not only responsible for their safety."

The demonstration called by the unions has once again brought to the forefront the main demands of the sector, such as the application of reduction coefficients to be able to bring forward the ordinary retirement age to 60 "without economic reduction of the pension."

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