There were 104 buses, only 1: complicated week in Coimbra

SMTUC workers’ strike is confirmed, with a 99% adherence in the early hours. It will be three days like this.

The workers of SMTUC decided to keep greve already previously marked that they did not have any response about a possible meeting with the government.

Workers of the Municipal Urban Transport Services of Coimbra (SMTUC) decided last week, in plenary, to advance with strike of Today, Monday, Until Wednesday, being the second moment of stopping within two months.

The regional leader of the National Union of Local Administration Workers (Stal), Luísa Silva, told Lusa agency that the decision was unanimous.

And the effects are already noted: shortly after 8 am on Monday, in 104 buses, only 1 had passedannounced SMTUC to journalists. Therefore, one Adhesion of 99%.

After a two-day strike in February, this three-day stoppage is followed in March, in a fight calendar that increases every month until September, the month when the municipalities should be performed, totaling 44 days of stop, agreed for workers a month ago.

According to Luísa Silva, the SMTUC workers decided to keep the strike
for not having any response about a possible meeting with the Government for a improvement of the salary conditions of drivers and mechanics, which receive as operational assistants.

Beyond the absence of any response about a possible meeting with the government, the union leader reiterated that it would be possible Chamber of Coimbra the payment of the supplement Of penalty and unhealthiness, noting that there are several examples of municipalities that pay it to other professionals other than those provided by law.

“The House claims that it only pays those in the law, but there are other workers not covered by the law that receive this supplement,” he said. According to the leader, workers “are mobilized to continue the fight, because they have not yet had an answer to what they asked.”

The low attractiveness of the career has led to a absence of drivers In the SMTUC, with the persona map for 2025 to account for a total of 44 vacancies to fill, despite having permanent open competitions.