The strike of the reviewers of the CP has made 93% of trains that normally circulate throughout the country until 10 am Monday stay still. According to the spokesman for the CP, Ana Portela, only 34 of the 455 trains provided circulated until that time, and in Porto and Coimbra “there is no movement since midnight.”
In the most recent balance sheet of the strike, the company spokesman stated that in Lisbon only 19 urban train service ran. In the long-haul service circulated 12 alpha-commuters and intercity and regional service only made two calls, in line with the Algarve. In international connections, the only planned train (the Lusitania) circulated.
According to the CP, the disruption caused by the strike are being exacerbated because the Arbitral Tribunal appointed by the Economic and Social Council, not fixed minimum services, contrary to what has been habit, which led the company to advise passengers or through notices placed in stations, either in your site and call center .
The reviewers CP scheduled a four-day strike (2, 3, 5 and 6 April) to claim the fulfillment of court decisions concerning the payment of supplements in holiday pay and Christmas since 1996 . To this stoppage joined the strike to work on a holiday called by the Federation of Transport and Communications Union (Fectrans) last Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Following the strikes , rail traffic is being affected since Thursday and must delays and cancellations continue until Tuesday, April 7 in the morning.
Ana Portela ensures that on Tuesday “there train “, but risk not tell from what time, remembering that there are daily trains to run in 1500 in the country and that the service may suffer” some disturbances early in the morning “in some areas of the country.
The President of the Commercial Review of Railway Union Itinerant (SFRCI), Luis Bravo, said on Wednesday Lusa that the CP was sentenced, in several instances, to repay the supplements were not paid to workers in holiday pay from 1996 and the Christmas bonus between 1996 and 2003, estimating a debt of about ten million workers to reviewers and ticket sales.
No possibility of appeal, the CP and the workers’ representatives sat the table to reach a deal “for the company to pay this debt gradually” and, at a meeting on 18 March, representatives of SFRCI were informed that the proposed agreement had not yet been sent to guardianship, the Ministry of economy.
“That same day, we decided to break the social peace, the Easter period, with two days of strike, because these nine months of negotiations, the administration has created a legitimate expectation that workers would be compensated and we thought that the company was in the process in good faith, “he told Lusa Luis Bravo, adding that” the union tried everything to avoid this strike. “
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