The Social Security has sent this Tuesday the first pending report within the procedure to request reduction coefficients for transport workers with a view to their early retirement, according to CCOO, which values this progress and warns that it will be attentive to the respect of the established deadlines.
Specifically, the union explains that the Directorate General for Social Security Regulation has sent the report on mortality and morbidity in road freight transport driving to the National Institute of Health and Safety at Work (INSST) and to the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate (ITSS), so that these bodies can prepare their own reports.
In this way, CCOO emphasizes that this move confirms its thesis that the procedure had not "lapsed" nor had it been "dismissed," but rather that it "continues to advance," even though the six-month deadline to resolve the applications for road freight and passenger bus drivers had been exceeded.
Now, the INSST and the ITSS must issue other reports —on the working conditions associated with this activity, the possibility of modifying said conditions, and the hardship, toxicity, danger, or unhealthiness of these jobs— within one month, the "compliance" of which will be supervised by the union, as indicated in a statement.
CCOO recalls that, once these non-binding reports are finalized, they will be sent to the Evaluation Commission, which could issue a decision before the end of July. Subsequently, the hearing process for the affected individuals would be opened, and the final resolution would be issued for it to be approved (or rejected) and submitted to the Council of Ministers.
Likewise, the union indicates that the processing of the file relating to passenger bus drivers is still pending.
Strike called off after a written commitment
This Monday, UGT decided to call off the sectoral general strike planned for June 22 in road freight and passenger transport, after a meeting with the Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions, Borja Suárez Corujo, in which the union claimed to have obtained "for the first time a formal and written commitment" from the Ministry of Social Security and Migrations on the processing of files for the recognition of reducing coefficients that enable early retirement in the sector.
UGT considered that the deadlines had already expired since the registration of applications in October 2025 without any express resolution having been issued, and criticized not having received official information or a work calendar from the Ministry.
From the Ministry, for its part, they conveyed to Europa Press that this measure had already been agreed upon within the framework of social dialogue and that "progress" was being made in the procedure in accordance with the established steps.
In addition, the department announced that the Directorate General for the Regulation of Social Security had completed the morbidity and mortality report sent this Tuesday and that the one corresponding to the passenger road transport procedure would be completed in the coming days.