Silopor believes this Wednesday that lifting the overtime strike after allowing tutelage to negotiate wages is “extremely important” and no supply disruptions are expected.
A strike at Silopor – Company of Port Silos for overtime, announced until the end of February, was suspended this Wednesday, and workers are waiting for a proposal from the company to revise the wage table, the union said.
“[A greve] was put on hold as the government authorized the liquidation commission to negotiate with the union to renegotiate the company agreement,” Celia López of the Trade, Offices and Services Union of Portugal (CESP) told Lusa.
For Silopor, this is “extremely important” news given that the company is responsible for supplying more than 50% of its needs to the agri-food chain, thus ensuring supply chain standardization.
“[…] With the ships announced for unloading in the near future, no interruptions in the supply of grain for human or animal consumption are expected,” he concluded.
The union guaranteed that after this approval, the company would have time to consider the proposal that would be presented to the workers.
“Because they have made a commitment, the workers will wait for the company to submit a proposal to revise the pay table,” said Celia Lopez.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food has already ensured that it is “carefully” monitoring the situation in Silopor, adding that until then it had no record of food shortages.
Organizations representing trade and the food industry warned last week that the Silopore strike “threatened” food supplies, blaming former Secretary of State Alexandra Reis for stopping the dispatch, the statement said.