Bloco de Esquerda will convene the Communist Party, trade unions and Infrastructure Minister Joao Galamba to parliament over the situation of workers in railroad bars, party coordinator Catarina Martins said on Monday.
“What Bloco de Esquerda did was that he now summoned to parliament not only the CP and the unions, but also the Minister of Infrastructure. We cannot consider it normal that in a state-owned company like CP there are unpaid workers”, Katarina Martins This was told to journalists in Porto.
About two dozen workers from Apeadeiro 2020, the bar concessionaire of the CP intercity service, were on display in front of the Campagna station, and have been on duty for 13 days.
“With a rope around their necks, without a salary, especially with such a low salary, 130 families. This situation is unacceptable from a labor and economic point of view, but from a social point of view, it is colossal. violence,” the BE coordinator added.
According to Katarina Martins, “The quick solution is for CP to commit, pay wages and provide what is needed to return to normal train service.”
“I don’t know if people know, but CP bar and restaurant workers have only been paid wages for nearly a year now when they give advance notice of strikes. It’s amazing how the minimum wage “stretches even for a month, let alone more than a month”.
The blockade coordinator also believed that from an economic point of view, “the evil is right in the concession” that the KP makes from legal services to outside companies.
“The concession exists for one thing, let’s not deceive ourselves: the state must pay badly,” said Katarina Martins, that in this way “irresponsibility of working conditions” arises.
According to Katharina Martins, “because tenders are always for those who demand less from CP, these are the worst companies with the worst conditions, ladder companies.”
BE’s request to summon the CP and minister to parliament joins the PCP’s request made on Thursday after BE also sent questions to the government on 28 February.
On Wednesday last week, after a meeting at the Ministry of Labor with companies and unions, Francisco Figueiredo of the National Board of the Federation of Trade Unions for Agriculture, Food, Beverage, Hospitality and Tourism of Portugal (Fesaht) told Lusa that the meeting “led nowhere ”, recalling that the KP “said that today they brought information, but brought nothing.”
“Regarding Apeadeiro 2020, the company knows that it is bankrupt,” he said, pointing out that she came to the meeting to say that “she will ask for a meeting with CP to make a new concession contract in order to get the viability of the company from creditors.” “.
CP bar workers have been on strike since March 1st.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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