The Spanish Railway Signalmen Union (Semaf) has announced this Tuesday that it postpones the strike called in the Renfe Group for this Thursday 12 and moves it to November 23. The decision comes after the approval by the Council of Ministers of a decree with measures for railway security and with the aim of granting a "strict margin" to negotiations with the Executive over the agreements that are still pending to be finalized.
The trade union organization refers to the Royal Decree-law on urgent measures to strengthen operational safety in rail transport and the social protection of professionals in the sector approved this Tuesday, and before which it celebrates that the Government "begins to comply with tangible facts" the agreements on railway safety.
Semaf attributes having achieved "for the first time" through the strike call that the Executive has given the green light to this new regulatory framework, which will come into force when it is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
"Given this real change by the Government and the Ministry of Transportes, Semaf has decided to replace the work stoppage scheduled for November 12 with a new strike call for November 23. In this way, we grant a strict margin to the negotiations in order to obtain next week the real approval and publication of the agreements that are still missing," it explains in a statement.
At the same time, the train drivers warn that they will keep "the pressure of the dispute fully intact" with the strike call for next November 17 "across the entire sector," as well as with the new one for the 23rd of the same month.
Finally, the union emphasizes that it will continue negotiating so that the rest of the safety commitments that remain pending for regulatory development are validated, and insists that it will only accept "real facts materialized through their direct approval and entry into force," and not only the signing of commitments, "even if they are signed by a minister".