Unions consider that this increase represents a flattening regarding the national minimum wage, which, “Certainly, will contribute to aggravate the structural problem of the CP, which is the inability to recruit new workers and fix the current ones.”
CP administration has decided to unilaterally apply 34 euros increases to salaries up to 2,631 euros and 1.7% in equals, a decision failed by the unions, which will discuss the following steps,
“It was accomplished, today [esta quarta-feira] In the morning, a supposedly negotiating meeting, but early on was transformed by imposition, when the CP administration reported that it decided to make a management act, “says the Federation of Transport and Communications Unions (FECTrans), in a note published on its official website.
According to workers’ representatives, the CP administration – Comboios de Portugal decided to implement in April, with retroactive to January, the second option it had presented to union structures on March 31 and which translates into a “34 euros increase up to 2,631.62 euros and 1.7% in equal or superior remuneration” and 10.20 euros.
“We are facing a position of the disapproved administration unanimously by the organizations present at the meeting and we will discuss the following steps, in defense of the valorization of salaries and professions,” said Fecrans.
Increase “will aggravate the structural problem of CP “
Unions consider that this increase represents a flattening regarding the national minimum wage, which, “Certainly, will contribute to aggravate the structural problem of the CP, which is the inability to recruit new workers and fix the current ones.”
As for the report that unions and administration has elaborated and claiming to the government exceptional measures, without prejudice to normal negotiation, such as replacement of the difference with the existing national minimum wage in 2018, an increase of 4% in the second half of this year and the reduction of permanence times at salary levels, the administration reported that the document has already been sent to the ministry of guardianship, awaiting brief response.
