The action, involving members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), continues until 9pm tomorrow with a further two-day stoppage planned next week.
He held a news conference to throw his support behind a nationwide work stoppage planned for Monday by businessmen protesting Mr. Chávez's new program for economic reform.
However, in the event that members decide the improved offer is inadequate, another 48 stoppage planned for 19 October will go ahead, potentially affecting BBC coverage of chancellor George Osborne's spending review announcement the following day.
Four days of stoppages planned by ScotRail staff belonging to the RMT union, due to start on Friday evening and continue until Christmas Eve, have been cancelled.
Ms. Sönnischen declined to say whether the union planned further work stoppages in the run-up to the next round of talks, slated for April 29-30.
The planned stoppages are a protest against Spanish government plans to sell off parts of the company.
Similar stoppages are planned tomorrow in Kilmarnock, London, Carlisle, Coventry, Chelmsford, Hatfield, Leeds, Nottingham, Swindon and Warrington.
Similar stoppages are planned for tomorrow in Kilmarnock, London, Carlisle, Coventry, Chelmsford, Hatfield, Leeds, Nottingham, Swindon and Warrington.
On July 17th, around 750,000 council workers, from librarians to binmen, staged a one-day strike; two more national stoppages are planned.
The strikers say they have been infuriated by Mr. Marples into planning a similar stoppage as a probable regular feature of future Mondays.
