Strike will last two days in some sectors

Schools, garbage collection or nurses with prolonged strikes. Effects on CP begin today. INEM retreats.

A general strike promises to paralyze Portugal in several sectors this Thursday, December 11th, but the consequences will not end on that day.

The effects of the strike on trains they start to feel today, Wednesday. CP – Comboios de Portugal warned that there may be travel cancellations, or delays, on Alfa Pendular, Intercidades, International, InterRegional and Regional services.

On Thursday, at a local level, the most affected services are expected to be garbage collection, schools and various municipal facilities.

Cristina Torres, president of the National Union of Local and Regional Administration Workers, told the Lusa agency that the sectors most affected would be: waste collection, schools, transport responsibility of local authorities and various municipal equipment – swimming pools, museums, sports halls and libraries.

And here too the effects should already be felt today, Wednesday: in Évora, the collection of trash It should stop at 7pm. Sintra, Amadora, Almada, Loures and Vila Franca de Xira will also pass through in the following hours.

A strike will continue until Friday, in some sectors.

In health, there is a national strike nursing on December 12th, from 8 am. It was called by the Democratic Union of Nurses of Portugal.

Also on Friday, there will be a strike by the Independent Union of Workers of Public Organizations and Social Support, for workers in Central, Regional and Local Public Administration.

This latest call will affect schools, tax offices, Social Security servicesand various municipal services, such as garbage collection.

In fact, several schools have already notified those in charge of education that the children will stay at home Thursday and probably in Friday also.

However, workers at the INEM retreated and they will not join the general strike. “The extraordinary reason has been resolved”, explained Rui Lázaro, president of the Union of Pre-Hospital Emergency Technicians, after a meeting with Ana Paula Martins, Minister of Health.

Os Portuguese support this general strike. A survey released by shows that 61% of Portuguese people agree with the strike.