The Lanzarote Transporters Cooperative has decided to suspend the strike called for this Monday, July 25, as it claims to have reached an "agreement" with the Lanzarote Council.
According to the president of Lanzatrans, Artemio Callero, the president of the institution, María Dolores Corujo, "listened and supported" this Thursday the demands of the workers, which include their defense of the extraction of jable in the Muñique area.
“We told them that we miss the fact that the Cabildo publicly denied that the extraction area is not a protected area, it is a mining area, after La Sexta came with all the paraphernalia to treat us as criminals”, explains Callero. “They apologized and agreed to fully support the transporters in that regard”.
“We are not stealing jable, nor taking it from anywhere, the rest of the island has to know that we were right, that the licenses are not in place because the government denies them, not because we cannot take jable from there”, he insists.
Likewise, the president of Lanzatrans points out that they left the meeting “happy”, so, for the moment, they will give the institution until September to manage the sector's demands.
Other issues discussed during the meeting
Regarding the rest of the transporters' criticisms and demands, these were also discussed at the meeting. Regarding the increase in the price of gasoline, Artemio Callero acknowledges that the Cabildo “can do little”, since it is not among its powers.
Regarding the waste management of the Zonzamas landfill, transporters question that they do not accept certain discharges because they are not properly classified. “The president told me that the issue was green, that they had not yet studied it because it had been a more recent controversy, but they promised to look at it with the councilor of the landfill”, Callero points out.
Finally, he states that the Cabildo also told them that “they are going to review the excessive traffic fines”. “We are not saying that they should remove the fines if the Police are right, but those of the Cabildo, the minimum ones are 1,000 euros and they have to take into account that the one who is on the road all day always has more possibilities of making a mistake than the one who only takes the car to go to work”, he insists.
“They have told us that there will be new legal personnel who will review those things”, he adds.