Associations of industrialists and drivers at loggers courts in Spain

According to the AECOC, in fact, the measures agreed with the Comité Nacional del Transporte por Carretera (CNTC), the interlocution body with the government formed by the different initials of self-transport, " will have serious consequences for the fabric entrepreneurial as they clearly pose a risk to the competitiveness and efficiency of the value chain. " For the AECOC, " the agreement is particularly damaging to small and medium-sized enterprises, as many of these will not be able to support these measures. The seriousness of some of the proposals-the association of industrialists-is such that many of these could see a compromise to the proper functioning of their activities and even their survival. " In addition, the AECOC stressed, "the advanced proposals are very difficult to comply with and will generate unnecessary tensions in the sector." " The Royal Decree Law, in fact, is the further sink of the AECOC-it welcomes the claims of the organizations of the transport undertakings (employers), but, in no case, those of many of the drivers, and especially of the drivers, which the legislation seeks to protect. "

One of the key points of contention is the introduction of the ban (with some exceptions) to the driver of the truck to carry out loading and unloading of the goods. According to the AECOC, "this will create serious problems for the service contractors, especially to small and medium-sized enterprises, will increase waiting times and will result in a loss of productivity and competitiveness that is very damaging to the whole economy." " The lobby of the shippers-the lobby of the shippers-has denounced the FENADISMER (Federación Nacional de Asociaciones de Transporte de España)-presents an idyllic view of the functioning of the market. transportation, based, according to them, on the fact that the loading and unloading of the goods that the drivers carry out daily (more than 73% of the operations according to an AECOC study) is based on agreements of a friendly nature between the chargers and truck drivers, and which of course are paid in most of the cases separately (in more than 60% of the cases, it is reported in the study cited). Unfortunately, however-this history bears no resemblance to the harsh reality experienced by the drivers, who not only do not negotiate the carrying out of these tasks, but in many cases they do not even know the measures of prevention of the centres where they perform them and, of course, these are not charged either separately or globally. For this reason, the association of transport-FENADISMER has once again challenged the association of the shippers to demonstrate to the public that it is so idyllic the way to proceed with the shippers towards the true drivers who- recalled FENADISMER-they are forced to load and unload the goods on their platforms and cargo benches. "

For the AECOC, on the other hand, it is absolutely necessary that these loading and unloading activities are not included in the provisions of the Royal Decree-Law : " it is a serious mistake-it has been a serious mistake-that this question cannot be part of the agreements negotiators between the parties. The transport contractors-the AECOC-did not intend to oblige the driver to carry out these tasks, but simply that it would be possible for the companies, by mutual agreement and under the circumstances, to decide which one is the best system in each of the cases. It is important to highlight-the AECOC has specified-that, in the event that it is the driver to carry out these duties, that fact must be duly reflected in the contract, paid aside and, of course, carried out under the maximum guarantees of safety, the prevention of possible risks and comfort for the driver. "

For FENADISMER, unlike the AECOC, it has no bearing on the efficiency of the transport operations, but rather with the willingness to continue to pay costs on the drivers : " behind all this brutal opposition -the trade union association noted-there is an attempt by them to continue to save the two billion euros a year, from themselves estimated, which qualifies offensively as "supply chain efficiency", of course at the expense of the self-transporter, and who would like to continue to maintain in future. For this reason, FENADISMER, the association concluded, hopes that the government will not bow to these pressures and approve the decree-law in the terms agreed with the drivers last December. "