According to the operator, the strike at the checkpoint resulted in the suppression of 170 trains from 00:00 to 16:00, while the carrier estimated that 809 were planned.
Thus, according to him, 639 trains were carried out during the same period.
In long-distance traffic, seven trains out of a total of 46 planned were suppressed and in the regional, out of 195 planned, 62 failed.
In the city of Lisbon, 73 trains out of about 382 were canceled, while in Porto, out of 165 scheduled trains, 24 did not take place.
With regard to urban trains in Coimbra, four trains out of about 21 have been removed, SR points out.
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 Saturday 00:00 to Friday 23:59, “a strike to perform work during all normal hours of daily work involving entry and/or exit from headquarters from 00:00 to 06:00:00, for those who works as a machinist or technical mechanic” and from Tuesday 00:00 to Friday at 23:59 “a strike during all normal working periods, the expected duration of which exceeds six hours, for categories of traction inspectors. or chief traction inspector.”
In February, strikes organized by several Communist Party unions led to the suppression of hundreds of convoys a day.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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