Correos estimates the follow-up of the strike at 18% and the unions place it at 90%

MADRID, 2 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Correos has reported that the number of company employees who have supported the strike that began this Wednesday and will last until Friday represents 18.27% of the workforce, compared to the 90% that the unions estimate. On the last night shift, follow-up was limited to 10.5%.

Yesterday, more than 20,000 of its workers, according to union figures, and around 4,500 people, according to the estimate of the Government delegation, demonstrated in the center of Madrid to denounce what they consider to be the "dismantling" of Correos as a public company.

Organized by UGT and CC.OO., the march criticized the "lack of a project" of the company's current board and that the Government does not act to renew its governance model, when the company has a deficit of 400 million and losses of more than 500 million in the last three years, according to the unions.

Correos has repeatedly denied these accusations, rejecting that there is a plan to privatize it, destroy jobs or transfer its activity to its subsidiary Correos Express. On the contrary, it defends having launched the largest public job offer in recent decades and is expanding its services to rural areas, where it is digitizing customer service points.

The transformation process in which it is immersed, which revolves around the diversification of services, internationalization and the improvement of efficiency, aims to generate income that reverses a situation of losses in postal shipments aggravated by the pandemic situation - -212 million less in 2021 than in 2020, the year in which 500 million fewer shipments were sent than in 2019--, according to the company.