The assembly of workers in Metro de Madrid, where morning and afternoon session, decided today to call off the strike that kept the service for a week, which leads to the possibility of reaching a negotiated settlement .

The assembly has chosen to rescind the July 12 strike launched to protest the decision of the Community of Madrid to extend to employees of, mmorpg aion, public companies - like Metro - wage reductions of five percent applied by the central government officials to alleviate the effects of the economic crisis.

The decision taken by the workers is "an exercise of responsibility to the people of Madrid", according to spokesman said the strike committee, Antonio Asensio, who has been estimated at "about 3600 or 3700" the total number of workers who have participated in the two assemblies.

Workers in suburban Madrid, however, keep a card up his sleeve, as they have also decided that in case of not reaching any agreement with the company in the next week, could recover from the day stoppages 13 July, although this decision should be taken at a new assembly which will take place the day before.

"Let this not be taken as metro workers have loosened, which we have surrendered," said Asensio, for whom the decision is a "gesture" to reach out to the address of Metro and the Community of Madrid, they expected to pick up the gauntlet.

This opens the way for a fruitful contacts last week were sterile with a view to an agreement.

From Monday to Friday, the five unions represented in Metro conducted a strike that affects two million users and, on days 29 and 30 June, not respect minimum service of 50 percent given by the regional administration.

With regard to requests by the Counseling for Transport and Metro for the direction of the protesters called off the strike and sit down to negotiate, Asensio has confessed: "We thought we have, hopefully we have not mistaken."

On the other side is cautious and now the manager of the Regional Transport Consortium, Jose Manuel Pradillo, has warned that the strike by Metro "is not completely called off" because there is still work stoppages announced for next week.

Pradillo has ensured that the company is willing to dialogue with the unions, as soon as they request and, meanwhile, has made clear a willingness to negotiate and reach a satisfactory solution.

According to the committee, the company has opened files on more than two thousand of the 7,500 workers of the template that "naturally run their course and are now in a period of allegations," pending before the courts, said the manager of Consortium, convinced that some of these files "end in dismissal or sanctions, and others do not."

Pradillo has emphasized that the Madrid Assembly has approved an amendment to the standard applied by the wage cut, which applies specifically to employees of Metro.

That clause allows the 2.15 lower staff costs and look so "a different solution" to the workers of this company, which does not mean Lowering the 5% "in each and everyindividualized pay, "added the manager.

As to the date of the meeting between employers and workers, Antonio Asensio has signaled his willingness "when they want," and although it has shown its concern over the files opened to workers, has clarified that "we do not condition to any kind of negotiation of threat.