The CGTP requested this Monday a meeting with the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, reaffirming the demand to withdraw the labor package, expressed, “unequivocally”, in the General Strike of December 11th.
CGTP-IN informs that it requested, this Monday, a meeting with the prime minister. The objective of the meeting is to reiterate the workers’ dissatisfaction with the labor package and, stresses the union central, to demand its “withdrawal”.
“At a time when the employment situation is characterized by low wages, increasingly long and unregulated working hours, precarious employment, the denial of the full exercise of the right to collective bargaining, among other negative conditions that carry over from work to life and thus affect the country’s own development, CGTP-IN states that it is time for the Government to withdraw the labor package,” the statement said.
The union center takes the opportunity to reinforce that the planned changes “not only do not respond to current needs”, but “would worsen the worst things that affect the lives of those who produce wealth every day and guarantee the rights that make the country move forward”.
The CGTP’s request comes on the eve of the minister’s meeting with the UGT and four days after the General Strike, on December 11th, which was “a very expressive response” and which translated into an “unequivocal sign of rejection of the labor package and a demand for a reversal in the direction followed over the last decades”.
“A General Strike that, from private and public sector workplaces, brought to the streets the demand for a policy that values work and workers and in this way enhances the development of Portugal”, argues the CGTP, ending with a word of protest: “Withdraw the labor package!”
