The goal is to give “a clear message to the government” to reverse “its position on the work package,” says the CGTP secretary general. Tiago Oliveira says that the current labor legislation “already penalizes the life of those who work”.
A He called a national march to November 8, in Lisbon, against the government’s draft government draft government and admits to advance with a general strike “in the near future,” said the secretary general of the Union Central.
The goal is to give “a clear message to the government” to reverse “its position on the work package,” said the secretary general of the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers – National Intersindical (CGTP), Tiago Oliveira, at a press conference in Lisbon.
This initiative fits into a set of actions that the trade union central will carry out to intensify the forms of struggle against the government’s draft, after Saturday’s demonstration in Lisbon and Porto.
To “continue the fight” and face the “assault [aos direitos dos trabalhadores] Which is ongoing “, CGTP has also decided to” advance a general action in companies and the streets against the work package “, which includes” plenary, contacts, strikes and paralysis, public tribunes and convergence actions “to” discuss with workers their concrete problems, “said the CGTP Secretary-General.
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On the other hand, the CGTP National Council, which was gathered, also decided to advance with a petition, by collecting subscriptions by “entire country” and will be delivered to the Prime Minister.
The CGTP Secretary-General also mentioned that Saturday’s demonstration was only “the first step” and promised new forms of struggle, “growing”, still insisting on the appeal to the government to remove the draft from the discussion.
“All of these actions, with the growing involvement of workers, with the promotion of the unity and the convergence of all around the common claims, from the workplaces, will grow a wide fight of struggle, which will give due to combat the ongoing attacks and which will develop with all the forms of struggle that the situation imposes, including a general strike, to carry out in the near future,” he added.
Asked about the circumstances that could dictate the advance to a general strike, Tiago Oliveira has needed to give a concrete timing, saying that it all depends on the “government positioning.”
Current legislation “already penalizes those who work”
The CGTP Secretary-General also stressed that the current labor legislation “already penalizes the lives of those who work”, giving as an example that 54% of young people in Portugal are “in a situation of work precariousness” and that 1,900,000 workers have “completely disrupted working hours”.
Asked if there have been contacts with UGT for a possible joint strike against labor reform, the CGTP secretary general admitted that “there are contacts” with the union center led by Mario Mourão.
The government’s preliminary draft to revise labor legislation, which is being debated with social partners, provides for the review of “more than one hundred” of labor code articles.
The changes provided for in the proposal – designated “work XXI” and which the government presented on July 24 as a “profound” revision of labor legislation – aimed from the area of parenting (with changes in parental licenses, breastfeeding and gestational mourning) to flexible work, training in companies or experimental periods of labor contracts, further enhanced the sectors that are covered by minimum services in case of strike.
Notwithstanding, on September 10, the government was committed to presenting a new version of the document, “with evolutions” in family-related and parenting matters, according to UGT and CIP.
