Portuguese MNE workers in Brazil start strike of 4 weeks

Embassy employees and consular posts from Portugal in Brazil begin on Monday to a four-week strike due to the lack of government measures for these workers to have their salary in euros.

According to the Union of Consular Workers and Diplomatic Missions and Central Services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (STCDE), these employees are the only ones of external peripheral services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNE) and the Portuguese Public Administration not to have their salary fixed in euros.

The strike begins today and until Thursday, and will take place on the same days of the week until March 26, this and, from 03 to 06, from 10 to 13, from 17 to 20 and from 24 to 26 March.

“Their remuneration were frozen at the exchange rate of 1 euro for 2,638 reais, fictitious, but convenient for the MNE, and at the date of sending the notice of strike the exchange rate was 6,0127 reais to 1 euro. There was no replacement of the salary table of these workers to euros, currently receiving less than half of what is due, ”continues the union organization, in a statement released.

« While inertia and lack of clear and satisfactory commitments subsist, the called strike also remains, being expected very significant adhesion throughout the consular network that, in many posts, will be total, » says the publication.