Metropolitan Carris Bus in Amoreiras, Lisbon
Two -hour stoppage at the beginning and end of each shift between June 6. Carris will not circulate for 24 hours on the 12th. It is partial and there are minimal services.
Adherence to the partial strike of this Monday of workers of Carris Road Carris, which operates in Lisbon, in protest for the impasse of negotiations with the carrier, was at 08:00 significantsaid union source, without quantifying the percentage.
“Adherence to the partial strike was at 08:00 significant. The stoppage is partial and There are minimum services, [mesmo assim] Disturbances are registered with the service, ”Lusa Manuel Leal, of the Portugal Road and Urban Transport Workers Union (Strup), which summoned the stoppage, is registered with Lusa.
Manuel Leal later referred more concrete data on adherence to the partial strike of Carris workers than the first and last hours of the daily service of each professional of the various sectors (traffic, workshops or administrative) and will take place until Friday.
Minus two hours at the beginning and end of the shifts
Representative unions of workers of the company Lisboeta (which operates the city’s public road service and also electric and street lifts), summoned a two -hour stoppage at the beginning and end of each shift between June 6 and 24 hours on June 12, and minimal services were decreed 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.
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 negotiation process and that, together with the company, it would constitute “working groups with a view, namely, to reduction of working hours in a phase 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 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.
“Unions always want more”
Speaking to Lusa on Friday, the president of Carris, Pedro de Brito Bogashe 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”.
“Us We could not, at the same time and in 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 very (large): at this time we estimate eight million euros, but it may be superior and besides, it is not, from a logistical, feasible point of view, ”Pedro de Brito Bogas told, asking patience.
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, Sitee – Service Workers Union and ASPTC – Carris Workers’ Union Association.
