Renfe adds today, Thursday, October 7, the fifth day of strike of his machinists, on the eve of the Pilar Bridge.
The four previous days were lived situations of chaos, delays and agglomerations for non-compliance with minimum services by part of the machinists who had to be executed, according to Renfe denouncement.
Last Tuesday these incidents caused a collapse in the nearby Madrid network for hours to the point that the company recommended to travelers who opted alternative routes.
Partial Paros have been summoned from 7 to 9 hours, from 12 to 16 hours, and from 18 to 22 hours.
RENFE has established Minimum Services Delll 75% at rush hour and 50% the rest of the day to guarantee the mobility of citizens
The strike will continue tomorrow, Friday, and on October 11 and 12, at full Bridge of the Pilar.
Travelers can consult the information about the services in the stations, on telephone 912 320 320 and in the Twitter account @inforenfe, @CercaniasMadrid, @CercaniasVLC and @Rodalies.
The Directorate of RENFE and the Semaf Machinist Union have reached an agreement to disconnect the morning strike Friday and October 11 and 12, with which it will return normality in circulation on this pillar bridge, as they have confirmed EFE
Sources from both the company and the union.
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RENFE has accounted for 108 trains canceled in Catalunya this Thursday throughout the day and up to 20 hours, at the fifth day of machinist strike convened by the Semaf union, according to the company’s sources to Europe Press.
In the whole of the day an 81% of the service provided for in Rodalies has been provided, compared to 85% of the minimum services decreed to strike, according to the same sources.
95% of the trains in minimum service services of Valencia has circulated during the third section – from 18 to 8:30 pm – on the fifth day of unemployment carried out by Renfe’s machinists, convened by the railway union.
In this time stretch, 35 of the 37 scheduled trains have circulated, which means that 2 have been suspended and 95% of the minimum services have been fulfilled, according to EFE sources of RENFE.
Alicante has not been provided with data from the trains that have circulated.
The unemployment of railway machinists follows Thursday until 10 pm, summoned by the SEMAF.
Two trains Avant have not been able to start on Thursday from their headset stations in Malaga and Seville, as their respective machinists, according to Europe have informed Renfe, specifying that it was convoys covered by the minimum services stipulated for the
Strike of machinists convened by the Samaf union, which has added the railway union (SF).
It is, specifically, of the Avant whose exit was scheduled at 14.15 hours from Malaga to Seville and the same type of train whose exit was scheduled from Seville at 18.35 hours a day in Malaga.
In both cases, convoys have not been able to start when they do not appear their respective machinists, extreme before which RENFE has opened an internal investigation.
Affected passengers have been derived to other convoys.
The Fifth Renfe Machinist Strike Day has led to the abolition of 78 trains from the Network of Madrid and has caused delays and alterations in the usual journeys, as well as the interruption of the service between T4 airport stations and source of the
Blackberry.
Partial stoppages of 7 to 9 hours, from 12 to 16 hours, and from 18 to 22 hours, have been summoned.
Sources of RENFE have explained to Europe Press that in the morning Strip of Paros, until 4:00 pm, a total of 78 minimum services trains have been suspended, which represents 40% compliance.
76% of the trains in minimum services of the commuter service of Valencia and 100% of those of Alicante have circulated during the second stretch of 12 to 16 hours – on the fifth day of unemployment that carry out the RENFE machinists
, convened by the railway union.
In this time stretch, 41 of the 54 scheduled trains have circulated, which means that 13 and 76% of minimum services have been fulfilled, according to EFE sources of RENFE.
In Alicante, the 16 trains that were foreseen have circulated.
The unemployment of railway machinists continues on Thursday in the time stretch between 18 and 22 hours, summoned by the SEMAF.
RENFE has accounted for 18 trains canceled in Catalunya this Thursday until 2:00 pm at the fifth runway of machinist strike convened by the Semaf union.
According to the company’s sources, 74% of the service provided for in Rodalies, compared to 85% of the minimum services decreed to strike.
Unlike what happened during the first hours of the morning, the second stretch of the unemployment is being developed with alterations.
The Rodalies service of Catalonia offers RENFE users different information channels to know the schedules of minimum services, such as telephone 900 41 00 41 and the Web of Rodalies.
Renfe reports that the following trains are suppressed: the 26554, with departure at 12:25, which covers the Bilbao-Orduña journey and 26567, departing at 13:31, between Orduña-Bilbao.
He has also informed a delay by technical failure at Alvia Gijón-Castellón, at 12h.
RENFE has warned this Thursday of “Alterations” at its service from Catalonia for non-compliance with essential services by a group of machinists.
Sources of the Company have communicated these incidents after starting the strike period from 12:00 to 4:00 pm as convened by the Spanish union of machinists and railway assistants (SEMAF).
This four-hour unemployment is added to summoned from 07:00 to 09.00 hours by Railway Union (SF), and the convened by both unions from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm today.
The Deputy Secretary of Social Policy of the PP, Ana Pastor, has urged the Government to guarantee the fulfillment of the minimum services on the Renfe machinist strike and has announced that its training will request explanations in Congress because the Executive “is removed from mid-hand
when there are problems”.
In statements to telempridrid collected by Europe Press, Pastor has indicated that the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has to ensure compliance with minimum services that “guarantee mobility” that is “a need” and not “a luxury”
.
RENFE has calculated that the economic impact that is having the strike of machinists so far is around 1.5 million euros for the 70,000 bills that has had to return to the users of the trains affected by the minimum services.
Cercanías Madrid has reported an interruption in the service provided between the T4 airport stations and source of the dwelling, in C-1 and C-4 lines.
Recommend travelers with origin and destination on both stations, use alternative transport.
Machinists continue this Thursday with the 8-day strike initiated last Thursday, September 30 to ask RENFE to recover the trains suppressed by the COVID-19 and the hiring of all the staff that has been cut in recent years.
The President of Renfe, Isaiah Tába, admitted this Thursday that in some “punctual episode” the breach of the minimum services on the strike of machinists may be caused by “some other causes”, although he warned that in cases where he is demonstrated
That has been a worker’s willingness is going to be sanctioned because it is a very serious infringement.
Thus, TABLES was expressed in an interview on the 24-hour channel collected by servimedia, where he said that the company has the willingness to reach an agreement with the Semaf union and revealed that he has asked his negotiators to “not get up from the table”
until they have reached it.
TABOES, who asked “apologies to all citizens for the inconveniences and the damage that is causing the strike to hundreds of thousands of people every day,” he said that in the framework of the records open to the machinists, what has been
last.
“In the end we will finish clarifying what happened,” promised the president of Renfe, who considers that “there is not such a silly machinist to not fulfill the minimum when they have been communicated.”
Cercanías València reports through Twitter of various alterations, such as the suppression of the train of 11: 03h between L’Alcúdia-VLC Nord.
The following will circulate at 11: 38h.
He also informed travelers from a breakdown about 10 in the morning in Xàtiva, on the Moixent-VLC Nord line.
Renfe trains are fulfilling the minimum services in the first time fringe for which the railway union (SF) has summoned Paros this Thursday morning, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 p.m., they have reported sources from the company to Europe Press.
Thus, 85% of Rodalies trains circulate and 72% of the bird and long-distance trains, after first strike days in which the minimum service percentages were not reached, and that have coincided with the strike of
Machinists also convened by Semaf.
From 12.00 hours at 4:00 pm Semaf has convened another unemployment, and from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm have called the strike both SEMAF and SF.
The deletion of 10 minimum service trains scheduled between 7:00 and 8:00 hours is causing delays and alterations in almost all the Madrid commuter lines, according to RENFE sources, which ensure that this morning 80% is being fulfilled
Of the minimum services planned for suburba at the partial strike from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Paros are summoned from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
95% of the trains in minimum services of the commuter service of Valencia and Castellón have circulated on the fifth day of unemployment carried out by Renfe’s machinists in the first stretch of unemployment – from 7 to 9 hours- convened by the union
Railway
In this hourly stretch, 58 of the 61 scheduled trains have circulated, which means that 95% of the minimum services have been fulfilled, according to EFE sources of RENFE, which have indicated that one of the trains has not circulated due to
A medical decline.
The unemployment of railway machinists will continue on Thursday in the schedules between 12 and 16 hours and 18 and 22 hours, in both cases convened by the SEMAF.
Paros are expected to continue tomorrow Friday and October 11 and 12, coinciding with the Pilar Bridge to claim the integrity in providing services by RENFE and restoration of all non-covered employment and all deleted circulations.
BlaBlacar has already registered for this weekend by 30% more reserves than in the same period of 2019, reports Europa Press, coinciding with the strike of Renfe machinists and the festive next October 12.
It provides for a total of 200,000 trips throughout Spain.
The current context of trains strike and increased gasoline price takes users who want to travel for the Pilar Bridge to seek a “economic and efficient” travel way, explain sources from the company.
