Carriers' strike in Spain protects food shipments

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According to the Madrid government, on March 17, a transport strike organized by a minority group reached its fourth day in Spain on Thursday, leading the authorities to deploy more than 23,000 agents to ensure the food supply, given the risk of shortage. Sectors such as fruit, milk and fish complain of difficulties in delivering perishable products to consumers. As a result, the government today deployed 23,500 agents across the country, including police, civil security guards and local police officers, to provide transportation through sometimes violent pickets in the face of pressure. I am trying to prevent other truck drivers who are not following the protests from taking the goods to their destination. In addition, agents ensure the safety of logistics platforms throughout Spain and take measures at all points of the road network where accidents occur. Employers in the agri-food sector and supermarkets are calling for an end to acts of violence. This is due to the fact that pastoralists and farmers, as well as the food trade, are affected by this unemployment The shortage of milk and dairy products is already finding its way onto supermarket shelves, and the dairy industry has announced that today most factories will start shutting down due to difficulties in transporting trucks on the roads to transport milk from farms to facilities. The fisheries sector has also called for an end to the “coercion” and “violent actions” that take place against airlines that do not support strikes because hundreds of tons of fish are stranded in ports and fish markets. However, the most graphic images of the tribe can be seen in large wholesale markets such as Mercamadrid, the largest in Spain, which accumulates 50% fewer downloads per week. In Mercarna Barcelona, the unemployment rate particularly affects products from southern Spain, such as seasonal vegetables and fruits, as well as fresh foods such as fish from the north, which have difficulty getting there. In principle, it is not really a strike, as the union claims, but this demonstration was called the platform to defend the transport of goods on the road, a minority of the sector to protest the rise in fuel prices, which accelerated after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, the protests have degenerated and, according to the government, there are “minority groups that use coercion and violence to ensure that supplies are not normal,” arguing that the administration will not accept “blackmail” or “boycott.” They define it as “group.ultras”, and the organization that convened today denied its association with the far right. RFG/RAP/JL/MA/MJ

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