The president of the Confederation of Production and Commerce of Chile (CPC), Juan Sutil, announced on Monday night that he has reached an agreement with the truck drivers who did not sign a pact with the government on Sunday, thus preventing them from continuing for more days with the mobilization of the last week.
Specifically, Sutil has indicated that the truckers of the central-south zone and of the Fuerza Norte group will go to the Ministry of Transport to seal the agreement with the Executive, as reported by ‘Bio Bio Chile’.
«We have reached an agreement, we have reached a tripartite agreement with the authority. Now we are going to the Ministry of Transport, to sign a tripartite agreement that has been built by the transport unions, the CPC unions and of course the Government», indicated Sutil.
«We have reached agreements that we cannot detail, because we are now going to the authority, which are very satisfactory agreements», added the president of the CPC.
Meanwhile, Freddy Martínez, the leader of the truckers of the central-south zone, has indicated that the agreement is already being consulted by the bases and that it only remains to sign it.
«This has been built on the basis of projecting joint work, with the cargo generators, the truckers who have difficulty to get ahead, we are going to sign that agreement now, so we have the best energies on that agreement», has affirmed Martinez.
Last Wednesday, the Chilean government invoked the security law to deal with the truckers’ strike due to the disruption they are carrying out on the highways.
The Minister of the Interior and Security, Carolina Tohá, confirmed that they had taken the decision to criminally prosecute – through the State Security Law – the truckers who maintain the blockades in several points of the country.
The Confederación de Transportistas Fuerza del Norte began last Monday an indefinite strike in protest against the high fuel prices, as well as the insecurity on the highways, after three months ago the truckers asked the Minister of Finance to put an end to the price hikes.
