The National Confederation of Land Freight Transportation of Chile (CNTC) announced this Sunday a National stoppage starting at 00:00 hours next Thursday, August 27 given the recent acts of violence in the Araucanía Region.
At a press conference, the president of the union, Sergio perez, god a Four-day ultimatum to the Government and Congress to work on the approval of compromised bills on safety matter.
“The date we have delivered is next Thursday at 00:00 hours. We understand that It is a sufficient period for the Parliament of the Republic and the Executive, which should put urgency to the 13 laws that have been resting for many years“said the trucker leader.
“It is a strike indefinite until these laws are passed “he explained.
The top leader of the CNTC assured that “We are not here to cut the roads of Chile, but we are going to be as one man: we are not going to work, we are not going to supply the nation, if Parliament does not clearly understand that it has to remove these regulations urgent, to deliver the tools to the Executive and eliminate the serious problem that Chile has today, which is called crime in all its forms: drug trafficking, terrorism, etc. “
Guild announcement arrives two days after the attack that left a nine-year-old girl seriously injured at kilometer 8 of route Ch-182, which connects the communes of Collipulli and Angol, in La Araucanía, after hooded men set fire to and shot at the truck in which he was traveling with his family.
He President Sebastián Piñera presented on August 13 a bill that toughens the penalties for burning trucks and that considers life imprisonment in the event of fatalities in the face of constant threats from carriers to start a strike.
“We regret and ask for the understanding of citizens, but I ask the whole of Chile: are we available to lose our lives, as it happened to Juan Barrios? What’s more important: people’s lives or sourcing?“, emphasized Sergio Pérez.
“This, dear citizens, is a cry of all citizens. We cannot be on our knees in the face of the violence unleashed,” he said.
You can see the announcement from the CNTC below:
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