Carris on partial strike until Friday
Carris workers started this Monday and extend a partial strike at the first and last hours of the daily service of each professional from various sectors (traffic, workshops or administrative). The stoppage is in protest for the impasse of negotiations with the carrier.
Representative Unions of the workers of the company Lisbon (which operates the city’s public road service and also electric and street lifts), summoned a two -hour stoppage at the beginning and end of each shift between today and June 6.
A strike is also called from 24 hours to June 12, and minimal services were decreed by an arbitral tribunal. In addition to being mandatory services such as the exclusive transport of the disabled or the company’s medical posts, it must work “in 50% of its normal regime” 703, 708, 717, 726, 735, 736, 738, 751, 755, 758, 760 and 767.
On May 13, the National Union of Drivers and other workers (SNMOT) explained that the agreement on salary updates would not imply the termination of the business process and that, together with the company, it would constitute “working groups, namely, to reduce working hours in a phased way to 35 hours per week”.
According to the union, it had already been able to reduce effective work to about 37 hours and 30 minutes per week, “a fact that was only assumed by all involved in this process some time later”, with the first meeting of the working group created to reduce the effective work to the 35 hours per week.
Speaking to Lusa, Carris President Pedro de Brito Bogas stressed that he has had “a good dialogue with union organizations”, but assumed as evidence that “unions always want more”.
« This year we had this difficulty, we are having this difficulty that it is in a cycle of strong wage increase and at the same time there is a claim to reduce working hours from 40 to 35 hours, » he said.
According to Pedro Bogas, the reduction from 40 to 35 hours, which the official says is a legitimate ambition, is “extremely difficult and calls into question the sustainability of the company”.
