Lisbon Metro – Olaias Station
The Lisbon Metropolitan announced that the Arbitral Tribunal has not decreed minimal services to the partial strikes of Metro workers scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday. There will be no transport until 10:30 am.
In, the Metropolitano de Lisboa recalls that the representative unions of the workers presented a pre-advisory Strike for September 9th and 11th, between 05h00 and 10h00.
Lisbon Metropolitan workers announced a week ago to hold partial strikes due to “lack of answers to their claims.”
Without minimum servicestransport will be affected in this period. Usually the metro works between 6:30 am and 01h00. In this scenario, Tuesday and Thursday, the metro Only start at 10:30 am.
The company said it has stated “immediately” negotiations with workers’ representative organizations, having submitted two proposals according to “that seek to balance the arguments presented by workers with the company’s management objectives and the promotion of productivity, in accordance with the legal determinations regarding the increase in salary range to the year 2025”.
The Lisbon Metropolitan adds that it presented, with the Arbitral Tribunal, a properly substantiated request for the definition of minimum services, which aimed to ensure the continuity of the circulation of trains during the strike periods, taking into account “the relevance of the public service” that provides to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
However, the arbitral entity did not decreed the minimum services proposed.
The company states that during the period preceding the strike, “promoted, and will continue to promote, dialogue with unions, in view of an understanding that will allow the suspension of that strike” and says he expects “a structural and lasting understanding”, noting that a new worker plenary is scheduled for 3 pm on Monday.
The Tuesday and Thursday strike will take place from 5 am to 10 am to the operation workers from 7:00 am to 12:00 pm to workshop workers from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm for fixed and administrative sectors and from 2:00 to 7:00 to night and road workers.
Among the claims is the Increased meal, vacation and Christmas allowance and changes at maximum weekly working hours.
