{"id":12644,"date":"2026-04-27T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/12644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:25:39","slug":"spain-threat-of-general-transport-strike-tourists-could-be-left-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/12644\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain threat of general transport strike: tourists could be left stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CCOO trade union has threatened to call a general strike<\/a> across the entire transport<\/a> sector in Spain<\/a> if the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration does not \u2018immediately\u2019 unblock the processing of early retirement for professional drivers, for whom the six-month deadline to prepare the necessary reports expires this April without the administration having finalised them.<\/p>\n

The Road and Logistics Sector of FSC-CCOO has complained that the Government is failing to meet the deadlines set by the Ministry itself to determine the cases eligible for early retirement. According to the organisation, this delay directly affects applications for road freight transport and passenger transport by coach.<\/p>\n

The General Secretary of the FSC-CCOO Road and Logistics Sector, Francisco Vegas, has criticised the Ministry of Social Security for failing to comply with Article 22 of its own regulations on early retirement, despite the fact that transport professionals, as he explained, are \u2018scrupulously\u2019 complying with all the legal requirements set out in Royal Decree 402\/2025.<\/p>\n

Vegas has also described the failure to respond to applications within the statutory timeframe as \u201cpolitical, administrative and social irresponsibility\u201d. Furthermore, the union has warned that, according to the CCOO, this situation would leave the group in a \u201cdead end\u201d that could result in the loss of their cases due to administrative silence.<\/p>\n

Currently, as they have pointed out, the Social Security authorities have not produced \u201ceven the first of the four technical reports required\u201d prior to the final decision by the Directorate-General for Social Security Organisation. CCOO has criticised the fact that there is also no news regarding the applications from self-propelled tow truck drivers.<\/p>\n

In the face of what they consider a possible \u2018fraud designed to block access\u2019 to retirement, the union will seek to agree on a schedule of industrial action<\/a> with the other organisations in the sector. If the situation is not resolved, the organisation has stated that the current situation will \u201cundoubtedly\u201d lead to the calling of a general strike<\/a> across the entire transport sector in Spain which could leave thousands of tourists stranded and having to opt for hire cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CCOO trade union has threatened to call a general strike across the entire transport sector in Spain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1254,7651,7650,598,4201,605,599,600,7649,17,3608,603,4202,955],"class_list":["post-12644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-balearics","tag-general-strike","tag-hire-cars","tag-holiday","tag-industrial-action","tag-latest-headlines","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-public-transport","tag-spain","tag-strike","tag-summer","tag-transport","tag-travel-disruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}