Strike the “handling” in Portuguese airports was called off – Renaissance (press release)

It was the strike cleared the sector of “handling”, the service sector at airports and covering all companies of all Portuguese airports.

The strike had been called by Sitava and should start on Friday and end on Sunday.

The union was named Thursday to the Ministry of Infrastructure and reached an agreement with the government.

The agreement covers one of the main points of the claim of workers : to prevent the entry into service of a third operator of “handling” in Portugal, told the Renaissance Fernando Henriques, Sitava leader.

“In the immediate, the agreement contemplates the cancellation of the third operator was perhaps our main claim and that would bring a huge instability. Probably potentiate collective redundancies mass. “

Fernando Henriques said that the Agreement enters into force” immediately “and that the Government will create a working group to” establish an action plan for the care sector in scale”.

The union had called a strike against what sorts of precarious workers who are handling at airports.