On Tuesday, several unions started new strikes in the railway sector, which will cover the Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) and CP until the end of next month, including the 24-hour day on April 6th.
According to the communique of the platform of trade unions with representation in the KP and KP, the protests will begin this Tuesday with a “protest blackout”, that is, a stop in the IP and KP from 10:00 to 11:00.
From Tuesday to April 4, there will be a strike in the IP from 00:00 to 02:00, and until April 30, trade unions are on strike in the IP and KP from the eighth hour of work, the same note says.
In addition, in the period from this Tuesday to April 30, “at the KP, workers whose normal working period is more than three hours in the period from 00:00 to 05:00 will strike from the seventh hour of work”, and from April 10 and 30, in the IP, “workers whose normal working hours are more than three hours between 00:00 and 05:00 go on strike from the seventh hour of work.”
On April 6, the strike will last 24 hours.
The trade unions that make up this platform are: ASCEF – Affiliated Association of Intermediate Railway Operations Managers; SINFB – National Union of Railway Workers of the Brace Tribe and Related Workers; SINFA – Independent Trade Union of Railway Transport, Infrastructure and Related Industries Workers; FENTECOP – National Union of Transport, Communications and Public Works; SIOFA – Independent Union of Railway Workers, etc.; ASSIFECO – Independent Association of Trade Unions of Commercial Railroad Workers; and STF – Railway Technical Services.
According to the statement, the structures anticipate disruptions to train traffic at CP, Fertagus, Medway and Takargo.
“The strikes will affect the conservation and maintenance of railways and roads, as well as the maintenance of trains and all the activities of the companies mentioned,” they said.
According to the unions, “unless minimum services are introduced on April 6, there will be no trains to Portugal.”
“Responsibility for the consequences, whether financial or social, that arise from these forms of struggle will be the full responsibility of the government, which, without negotiating with trade unions, ignores IP and CP workers and disrespects Portuguese citizens who use public transport. daily. railroad,” they complain.
The National Union of Drivers of the Portuguese Railways (SMAQ) also announced a new strike at CP during April due to the “autistic and inattentive attitude” it accuses the company of.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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