According to the company’s balance sheet, the CP train drivers’ strike, which focused on overtime this Sunday, forced the halt of 30 of the 127 trains scheduled to run from 00:00 to 08:00.
According to CP – Comboios de Portugal, there were 97 flights out of 127 planned, so the denial of service this Sunday was around 23.6%.
The highest incidence was noted in the regional, in which 25 out of 36 planned were carried out, and 11 (30.6%) were stopped.
In terms of urban areas, Lisbon planned 58, suppressed 13, and carried out 45; there were 26 urban in Porto, but only 17 took place, of which six were suppressed.
In Coimbra, the strike had no effect during this period, as two planned trips were made.
The same happened to the eight scheduled long-distance trains that departed on schedule.
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”.
Thus, the workers went on “strike for doing any work” from the categories presented by SMAQ from the last hours of the 9th to the first hours of the 11th, after which the overtime strike took effect.
According to the union, from 00:00 on the 11th to 23:59 on the 17th, “a strike to provide work for all normal daily work periods, the expected duration of which exceeds seven hours and 30 minutes, for the Category of Machinist or Technical Machinist.”
From 00:00 on the 11th to 23:59 on the 17th, they hold a “work strike for all normal hours of daily work that involve entering and/or leaving headquarters from 00:00 to 06:00.” , for train drivers or technical drivers”, and from 00:00 on the 14th to 23:59 on the 17th “a strike for all normal working periods, the expected duration of which exceeds six hours, for the traction inspector or head of the Traction Inspector Category.”
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 various Communist Party unions led to the suppression of hundreds of convoys a day.