The workers summoned a two-hour stoppage at the beginning and end of each turn between this Monday and 6 June and 24 hours on June 12.
Carris workers start a partial strike until Friday, at the first and last hours of the daily service of each professional of the various sectors (traffic, workshops or administrative), in protest for the impasse of negotiations with the carrier.
Unions representing workers of the company of the company Lisboeta (which operates the public road service of the city and also electric and street lifts), summoned a two -hour stoppage at the beginning and end of each turn Between Monday and 6 June and 24 hours on June 12having been decreed minimum services by an arbitral tribunal.
In addition to being required services such as the exclusive transport of the disabled or the medical posts of the company, They have to work “in 50% of its normal regime” Careers 703, 708, 717, 726, 735, 736, 738, 751, 755, 758, 760 and 767.
Workers claim time reduction
On May 13, the National Union of Drivers and other workers (SNMOT) explained that the agreement on salary updates would not imply the termination of the business process and that, together with the company, would constitute “working groups with a view, namely, reducing working hours in a phased way to 35 hours per week”.
According to the union, it had already been able to reduce effective work to about 37 hours and 30 minutes per week, “a fact that was only assumed by all those involved in this process some time later”, with the first meeting of the working group created to reduce the effective work to the 35 hours per week.
Speaking to Lusa, Carris President Pedro de Brito Bogas stressed that he has had “a good dialogue with union organizations”, but assumed as evidence that “unions always want more.”
“This year we had this difficulty, we are having this difficulty that it is in a cycle of strong wage increase and at the same time there is a claim to reduce working hours from 40 to 35 hours,” he said.
According to Pedro Bogas, the reduction from 40 to 35 hours, which the official says is a legitimate ambition, is “extremely difficult and calls into question the sustainability of the company.”
“We could not, at the same time and such a short period, greatly increase the remuneration and decrease working time […]. We have a lot of consideration, close attention to all these claims, we have already given several examples of this, but it has a cost to the company [grande]: At this moment we estimate eight million euros, but it may be superior and besides it is not, from a logistical, feasible point of view, “he said.
Carris has been under the management of the Lisbon City Council since 2017 and workers have been represented by various trade union structures, such as SNMOT, the Road and Urban Transport Workers Union (Strup), Sitra – Transport Workers Union, SITE – SEPARATORS UNION OF THE SERVICE SECTOR and ASPTC – Carris Workers’ Union Association.
