(Summary) A few incidents and minimum respect on a day that the unions considered a "success".
The general strike day in Cantabria has passed without incident and have just completed one hundred per cent of minimum services, despite some early problems in the case of transport.
The unions believe that the mobilization has been a "success", with an average follow 72 percent and nearly 89% when analyzing only the 30 largest companies in the region. But from the administration, Star Trek Gold, and employers are responding with lower numbers, in many cases and by sector below 10% or 20%, and Cepyme CEOE-track talks "quite low".
Protests have been felt mainly in Torrelavega, where a large part of the large industrial enterprises in the region, as well as polygons and the bus station of Santander.
In contrast, in the center of Santander many local, ffxiv gil, shops and restaurateurs have opened normally, and those that have closed in the presence of the picket lines have returned to lift the shade immediately afterwards and have continued serving customers.
Also some have opted to keep their businesses closed all day, some acknowledge that "fear" and others for conviction.
This is the case, for example, fashion franchise Javier Simorra, tera gold, in the Cantabrian capital, which has placed posters explaining its support for the strike "freely and with total conviction" because you do not agree "that retired civil servants" and Customers "pay the consequences of economic mismanagement of the current government to the crisis."
Meanwhile, in supermarkets and department stores the pattern has been normal, and except for momentary closures by the presence of pickets or any delay in opening time, no problems have been addressed to their customers but, in the morning, they felt less influx than usual.
Neither significant incidents have occurred in the distribution sector, and have received most of the deliveries of fresh produce. In Mercasantander, for example, this morning the entrance of goods was about 50 percent of a normal day. And in the Market of Hope could be found with other open positions closed, but in general few customers. TRANSPORT
The few incidents during the day were basically concentrated in transport services. In Santander bus station pickets were posted first thing in the exit ramp to prevent more lines that circulate the minimum services established, and some of these have had problems, but ultimately have been carried out almost one hundred cent of the minimum.
The same has happened with some school bus lines, but also in education has maintained some semblance of normalcy. Only 11.3% of secondary school teachers and 10.4% of primary school have supported the strike, according to data from the counseling.
In rail transport also have been met minimal and the only incident recorded in Feve, is due to a glitch in the Centralized Traffic Control.
A breakdown in the system that allows the automatic control is required to manually direct traffic on the line Santander-Cabezon de la Sal, in the section Barreda-Cabezon, which has caused some delays and the suppression of one of the trains . At 13.15 hoursand automatic control was restored.
For its part, the airport has been operated only Parayas Ryanair flights to Rome and Pisa, the only scheduled for this day strike, "and at the Port of Santander minimum have been observed, which included the scale of the Ferry and a vessel with ethanol. BITES
The information pickets have been deployed by companies, businesses and other workplaces, in general, without causing significant altercations.
However, if that small incidents have occurred, as in a cafeteria where they have broken Santander fifty people asking for drinks in unison, while others were dedicated to knocking over and place the napkin on the bar stools. One of them threw a firecracker also caused damage to a lamp, after which the squad members left without paying.
And another informational picket acceded to the headquarters of Caja Cantabria, where they have thrown on the ground that he had brochures on counters and customer care workers have been rebuked for not second strike.
Also, there have been some incidents like the burning of tires in the S-20 in Santander, and the entry of industrial estates and in Shipyard or Los Corrales de Buelna.