ZAP
Third consecutive day without CP trains and strike is already part of the election campaign. Montenegro “always backwards,” accuses opposition.
This Friday is the third consecutive day in which there are no trains to circulate due to the strike of CP-Comboios de Portugal drivers. The adhesion is today, again, 100%.
“The adhesion is 100%. The strike may still have effects on tomorrow [sábado]but will be reduced. There are no minimum services”He told Lusa António Domingues, president of the National Union of Machinery of the Way.
António Domingos also said that From this Saturday and until Wednesday (the 14th), the drivers will strike the supplementary work.
From tomorrow, “the stoppage will be more residual. Until the 14th there will be trains of certainty,” he says to the same responsible this morning. And warns: this is “a warning to the prime minister.”
“This, deep down, is a setback to April 24, 1974. There is one thing that neither a former prime minister nor any prime minister can shut up: it is the discontent of the workers. The discontent of workers is channeled to the trade union movement, which fulfills instituted rules, fulfills the law, or if not channeled there, tends to be channeled for inorganic movements, which is often happening in other countries, ”explains António Domingues, stressing that“ workers’ discontent can slip into other situations ”.
“We have concrete situations: there are professionals in this country who cannot strike and because they do not strike, sometimes they tend to make demonstrations that slip into illegality,” he said.
Montenegro “Arrives always late”
Pedro Nuno Santos He returned on Thursday to accuse the government of always arriving late in response to seizures, warning of the risks of AD reviewing the right to strike or labor and privatizing health and social security.
“Those who cannot deal with a blackout, those who cannot deal with a strike in INEM or a CP strike, cannot deal with governance, crises and uncertainty,” said Pedro Nuno Santos in a rally in Castelo Branco.
Before an adversity and “a failure From his government and the protection of the CP, ”PS leader considered that in the case of the train stopping what the Prime Minister did was“ threaten, blackmail with ”.
“First the right to strike is proved, the following is the work legislation and employment security, then the health and finally social security is privatized. And if they still have the company of the liberal initiative is still faster,” he warned.
According to Pedro Nuno Santos, in terms of crises, AD’s government “never comes on time.” “They are even the first to arrive late,” he said.
“Incoherence”. Montenegro resembles words by Pedro Nuno
“Among the effects of the strike, the damage that is caused to the lives of people and the country’s lives. There is a huge disproportion and, frankly, We one day we will have to charge this”Admitted Luís Montenegro this Thursday.
“I even thought this was relatively consensual and that those who commented on my observation remembered what they said. I already said this when I was in opposition, it was perhaps my naivete to think that others would do the same,” said the prime minister, in reaction to Pedro Nuno’s words.
Right away, read tickets of two statements from 2019 Pedro Nuno Santos -without ever saying his name but his position at date, of infrastructure minister -first in an TVI interview in April of that year.
“I will read the following: ‘We must cautiously, without questioning constitutionally consecrated rights, reflecting on the law of the strike, the trade union organization and the supply of our critical infrastructures,” he said, saying that he himself was not so far today.
Montenegro cited yet another statement by Pedro Nuno Santos, in July of the same year to Lusa, in which he expressed concern for strikes in electoral periods, saying he agreed with what then defended the minister, regretting that today the PS leader accused him of insult to democracy.
“There is a Great dose of inconsistency. I don’t know how a country can be ruled with doubts, hesitations, with so -called zigzags, ”he accused, wondering if he should believe what Pedro Nuno Santos said before or now.
Montenegro considered that it is “for these and others” that only AD guarantees stability: “It is necessary to have political stability and in political opinion,” he said.
The Minister of Justice also said that the right to strike is being “instrumentalized by a political campaign”, rejected “to coat the right to strike”, but suggested a reflection and questioned how it was possible not to decree minimum services.
“We have no dogmas and the right to strike is a right that is highly valued, has been won by the workers and must be preserved. Now we have to think too when the right to strike is instrumentalized by a political campaign. We are on the brink of elections, we are in a management government, it is very complicated, and if not impossible, the government can respond to some demands that are being made at this stage, ”said the minister.
“The way it is being done, we can not fail to get uneasy. Those who are suffering today, and are suffering today and in the last days with the impact of this strike, can not be wondered why this happens, because it is possible that a class of workers can totally paralyze a country,” he said.
