CP has canceled 96 trains out of 560 scheduled from 00:00 to 12:00 today due to a strike by the carrier’s drivers, the company said in a statement to Lusa.
Of the 560 trains scheduled from 00:00 to 12:00, 464 have been sent, 96 have been cancelled.
CP – Comboios de Portugal indicates that 135 regional trains were planned, but 42 connections were not made, although 93 were made.
In terms of urban areas, Lisbon planned 270, suppressed 34 and carried out 236.
In urban areas in Porto, 110 were planned for this period, 98 were carried out and 12 were suppressed.
For long-distance trains, 30 are planned, 4 canceled and 26 implemented.
The strike was called by the National Union of Portuguese Railway Drivers (SMAQ) against the latest proposal for a €51 wage increase, representing an average career advancement of 3.89%, which the union structure considers “clearly unacceptable”.
Workers went on strike to do any work in the categories submitted by SMAQ from the late hours of Thursday until early Saturday morning.
From Saturday 00:00 to 23:59 the following Friday (17th), workers will go on “strike” during all normal daily working hours, with an expected duration of more than seven hours and 30 minutes, for the machinist. or categories of technical machinists.
According to the union, from 00:00 on Saturday until 23:59 on Friday, they are “on strike to do work during all normal hours of daily work, which involve entering and/or leaving headquarters from 00:00″. and 06:00 for a machinist or technical mechanic” and from 00:00 Tuesday to 23:59 Friday “strike during all normal working periods, the projected duration of which exceeds six hours, for a traction Category Inspector or Chief Traction Inspector”.
The arbitral tribunal ruled that the minimum service at the national level is about 30%, as well as what is necessary for the safety and maintenance of equipment and installations, as well as emergency services and rescue trains.
In February, strikes organized by several Communist Party unions led to the suppression of hundreds of convoys a day.