Up at 6am circulated only four of the 63 planned trains – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

Only four of the 63 scheduled trains circulated between 0h and 6 am on Monday due to the strike of the CP reviewers.

                     

                         “Between 0h and 6 am today circulated only four trains 63. The international Lusitania, an Alfa-Pendular and two in Cascais line,” said the spokesman of CP -. Train Portugal, Ana Portela

The official said that the situation is “very complicated” and is expected several constraints during the day on Monday, the last of four of the strike.

The CP scheduled a strike of reviewers four days (2, 3, 5 and 6 April) to claim the fulfillment of court decisions concerning the payment of supplements in subsidies since 1996.

At this stoppage joined the strike to work day holiday convened by the Federation of Transport and Communications Union (Fectrans) last Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

According to the CP, the disturbances in the movement of trains will be aggravated by the refusal the fixing of minimum services by the Arbitral Tribunal appointed by the Economic and Social Council.

Following the strikes, rail traffic is being affected since Thursday and must delays and cancellations continue until Tuesday -Thurs April 7 in the morning.

The president of the Union of Railway Business Review Itinerant (SFRCI), Luis Bravo, said on Wednesday that the CP was sentenced, in several instances, to repay additions that were not paid to workers in holiday pay since 1996 and Christmas bonus between 1996 and 2003, estimating a debt of about ten million workers to reviewers and ticket sales.

No possibility feature, the CP and the workers’ representatives sat down at 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 proposal 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 trading , the administration 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. “