Rodalies has applauded the agreement reached this Friday with the train drivers within the framework of the Company Committee meeting, under which the schedules in force before November 1 are recovered and the obligation is eliminated for drivers to begin their shift at Sants station (Barcelona). With this change, the company expects that it will be possible to "normalize the service" over the course of this weekend.
In a statement released this Saturday, the operator says that the deal will make it possible to improve the quality of the service and reduce the incidents recorded in the last few days, since "the organization of shifts and operations" is improved at the origin and destination stations, which, they point out, facilitates more efficient management.
Renfe explains that "the service schedules for the train drivers agreed with the workers’ representatives are recovered" after the last few days, during which the regulatory schedules had to be applied due to the decision of the workers’ representatives to break the agreements that had existed for years.
The company expects the situation to be "stabilized in a progressive manner," especially as of this Sunday, a point they underline at which the measures of operational flexibility will already be fully deployed.
Rodalies highlights positively the "willingness to engage in dialogue on the part of the parties" and says that the solution reached benefits both the internal organization of the service and attention to users, while also stressing that the negotiation channels have remained open throughout the process.