The Union of Public Administration Workers (Sintap) and the National Union of Railway Workers (Sinafe) announced THIS TUESDAY a strike in Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) on 28 February and 2 March.
This is a “dead end” in wage negotiations with IP management, the unions said in a statement.
As they say, at the last meeting, the IP management supported their proposal presented at the previous meeting, “there was no evolution, no approximation to the requirements of Sintap and Sinafe”.
“Clearly conditioned by the government, the negotiator from the employer shrugged off sending financial tutelage, which limited the increase to 5.1% of the mass of wages, which means another year of loss of purchasing power for employees of IP-Infraestruturas, IP-Telecom, IP-Engineering and IP “Heritage,” the message says.
According to Sintap and Sinafe, the unions’ proposals were not considered by the employers’ negotiating committee, so “in the face of this stalemate, the administration decided to end the in-depth negotiations by introducing a wage increase decree.”
The workers will go on strike “for the provision of any work” on February 28 and March 2 “for the entire working period.”
In the communiqué, the unions indicate that the strike is for higher wages and purchasing power, for the resumption of collective bargaining and for “non-discrimination of workers” and hiring.