The Lisbon Metro will suspend circulation and end all stations from 20h of Thursday, due to the holding of a plenary of workers. The company regrets the inconvenience caused to public transport users during celebrations in the city.
The Lisbon Metropolitan will suspend the circulation and end all stations from 20:00 on Thursday due to the holding of a plenary of workers, today revealed the company, considering the initiative of unions “unprecedented and unusual”.
The company highlighted, in a statement, that the call for union organizations for the plenary, which takes place in the Night from 12 to June 13appeals “expressly to the participation of all workers, not considering the need to ensure urgent and essential services”, due to the parties of the popular saints of Lisbon.
According to the Lisbon Metropolitan, this position “It was maintained by the union organizations in a meeting with the company late this afternoon.”
The company concluded “The minimum operating conditions and the necessary safety conditions for the maintenance of the network in operation are not gathered”taking into account the expected “exponential increase in demand” and “the absence communications already presented by workers”.
Also appealed in the statement, to the union organizations and the workers to react to the realization of the plenary, taking into account “The disproportionate impacts caused and there is no urgency or theme that implies the realization of the plenary on this occasion.”
“The Lisbon Metropolitan will continue to be committed to the Small and Effective Resolution of the subjects subject to the ongoing business process and reiterates its firm commitment to an open, transparent and institutionally responsible dialogue stance with all the representative structures of workers,” he said.
The company has regretted “the inconvenience that the situation will cause to all people who choose public transportation as mobility option to celebrate, with tranquility and security, the parties of the city“.
And it also said that the information about the service to be performed on the days June 12 and 13 will be updated permanently in your communication channels.
Normally, the metro works between 06h30 e as 01h00.
