Workers at logistics operator Medway will begin overtime strikes next Monday until the end of the month for “more humane schedules” and higher wages.
According to a statement from the National Union of Rail Trades (SNTSF), “with Medway/MSC providing no answers to these issues, workers are determined to continue their fight using the only means at their disposal, which is strike action.”
So, “the union has issued a notice of strike for overtime work, which will begin on July 15 and end on July 31,” he said.
According to the advance notice, “workers with the professional categories of production assistant, production operator and transport operator” will go on strike from the eighth hour of work; to overtime work; to work on the day off; from the seventh hour of service if the assigned service involves more than seven hours of work at night and from 00:00 to 06:00, if the assigned service follows the weekly rest, expect to enter service between 00:00 hours and 02:00 hours.
The SNCF indicated that “this notice of strike also applies to all workers with the professional category of ‘Circulation Operator’, if they are asked to carry out maneuvers in places staffed by workers with the professional category of ‘Production Assistant’, who are exercising their right to strike. They will strike for the time required to carry out the maneuver.”
“The workers are not workers, they work day in and day out, daily or hourly, to ensure they are always available whenever Medway/MSC wants them to be, and that is why they have chosen to fight in the form of industrial action,” they explained in a statement.
According to the union, “following several meetings with Medway/MSC management they were alerted to the problem that exists with fixed staffing arrangements. A problem that has been going on for years.”
The SNCF reminded that “workers have a life outside the enterprise, they have a family, and they cannot constantly plan their lives two days in advance or go on a weekly rest without scheduling work on the working day after the rest, this situation happens often.”
Medway workers already went on strike on March 28.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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