UGT has confirmed this Friday that it will proceed with the indefinite strike planned for June in the road transport sector, focused on the early retirement of professional drivers. The union justifies its decision based on the "lack of concrete action," "unjustifiable delays," and the "lack of will" of the Government to resolve this conflict.
The union organization criticizes the "lack of concrete action" by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations and its head, Elma Saiz, whom it accuses of limiting herself to offering "generic" statements in her appearance last Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies, after the ERC deputy Inés Granollers specifically asked her about this matter.
UGT denounces that it "still has not received a single formal notification from the Ministry regarding the real status" of the applications submitted for the recognition of reduction coefficients in road passenger and freight transport and refutes the minister's version, who assured that these "are still being processed." According to the union, the administrative deadlines began to count in October 2025 and the six months provided for in the regulations "have already more than elapsed without express resolution or official communication" from the Executive.
"As of today, more than seven months after the submission of the applications, the Ministry still has not specified the exact situation of the files, when the pending technical reports will be completed, nor when it intends to definitively resolve this issue," UGT stated in a press release, emphasizing the lack of clear information.
The union considers it "especially serious that the Ministry continues to hide behind technical arguments or supposed administrative difficulties while thousands of professional drivers continue to work in physical conditions increasingly incompatible with the age at which they are forced to remain behind the wheel," and warns of the consequences that this situation has on the occupational health of the group.
In the same vein, UGT notes a "permanent lack of definition" and "ambiguous" responses from the Ministry throughout these months and concludes that the problem has ceased to be a simple bureaucratic delay to become "a clear lack of political will to seriously address a historic demand of the sector."