ZAP
“There is no train or there will be all day,” and the next few days can be the same. 100% adherence to workers’ strike for higher wage increases. Immense pressure on buses across the country.
There is no single train to circulate in the country this Wednesday. The circulation of trains is standing across the country, according to the Federation of Transport and Communications Unions (FECTrans), which points out a 100% adhesion to the strike workers convened by several unions.
No minimal services were decreed, which extends Until 14 May to complain higher wage increases.
“At this moment the adhesion is 100%, there is no train and there will be all day“This morning tells the president of the Union Association of Intermediate Heads of Railway Exploration, Júlio Marques, at Campanhã, Porto.
The next few days “may be exactly equal to today if there is no availability on the part of the CP and the government to make a deal,” says the official.
The strike will have a special impact these days and Thursday due to the largest number of unions (14) that joined the stoppage these days.
A RTP relata desperate users to enter the busin Lisbon, in the Sintra line.
This strike is joined today and Thursday, the stoppage convened by the Union of Machiers (SMAQ) and, between 7 and 14 May, the one summoned by the Railway Union of the Itinerant Commercial Review (SFRCI).
The government says the strike in CP is.
“The country has been surprised by the biggest strikes since we have taken office. Strikes already with the management government, limited in its negotiating capacity; strikes specifically marked for the election campaign period; strikes that are not trading tools; empty strikes of objectives,” said infrastructure minister Miguel Pinto Luz this Tuesday.
