Before you go down to the Assembly of the Republic, for the first debate two weeks from 2017, António Costa, signed the Social Dialogue agreement in his office in São Bento, and only after that the document went to a tour of the collection of signatures, the headquarters the headquarters of the partners that have agreed to sign it. On Thursday, in the meeting with the prime minister, the bosses had already agreed that it wasn’t worth doing a public ceremony, for two reasons: I had already spent a lot of time since the agreement out hit, the 22 of December, there was no why wait any longer and the political circumstances also made them needless.
John Machado, of the Confederation of Farmers of Portugal (CAP), tells the Observer that at this meeting if you set it to "there was no sense in a ceremony very pompous with these circumstances there is a request for parliamentary consideration" — one that leaves an important point of the agreement at risk. They agreed that the subscriptions would be made "per-protocol", that is, without public ceremony. The Social Dialogue agreement would be signed based on the trust between the parties and signed so that was promulgated by the President of the Republic decree-law for the reduction of the TSU of the bosses, an integral part of the agreement. And it was so.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa raced in the speed that the Government had already given a sign of wanting to print to the process — by approving a decree Monday by electronic means – and enacted-the early morning. Hurry, on the part of Government continues to be justified with the need to follow up to a process that had been pending since the 22nd of December and have everything ready for the measure to be in force on the 1st of February. the Costa has been in India, and the Executive does not want to wait any longer, especially after in the last few days have raised the likelihood that strong of the compensation promised to the bosses to fall on the Parliament. The prime minister has given just to guarantee that the had no intention of honoring the agreement in the meeting that he had with the bosses on Monday. There was that calm partners that are directly affected with the eventual lead in parliament. Evil knew that the PSD was getting ready to stopping the new di scount of the TSU of the employers, fired on the orders of compensation alternatives.
The promulgation of the fast of the President of the Republic was seen in the PS as a sign that Marcelo would want to give: support to Social Dialogue. In fact, the very head of State had shown sympathy for the cause of their bosses at lunch time, when he explained the speed of his decision: "there Was a void. Ceased to apply the regime that came from the previous Government, which was a discount of 0.75 percentage points. There is an emptiness now, therefore, it punishes the entities, including business, and it was necessary to quickly fill this void, with the new regime. Hence, the urgency of the enactment," he explained. In fact, the discount of 0.75 runs until the end of January.
at That moment, the Ministry of Labour contacted the employers and the UGT to know if you were available to receive a person from the office of the minister for signing the agreement. The endorsement was widespread, although João Vieira Lopes, representative of the Confederation of the Trade, was in Barcelona and only returned at the end of the day. It was agreed that you would sign at the end, evil came to Lisbon, what happened to the beginning of the night. The rest was in a usual process, although not very common when it comes to an agreement-key, as is the Social Dialogue, usually signed in a public ceremony.
After Costa had signed the document, the driver of the Ministry of Labour went to the Tourism Confederation, then to the CAP.
I went to the room. When it arrived, the document was already signed by the prime minister, by Francisco Calheiros, Tourism, and the CAP," says Carlos Silva that has been the one to give the record the time, in a video that was published on the page of UGT.
Carlos Silva ensures that the text was "in the terms that had been set". For this, we signed an agreement that is what "at this time best serves the workers".
To the side of the deputy secretary-general Luís Correia, Carlos Silva began by saying — and with a document to the front, with a pen on top, the day and time of agreement: January 17, 15h22. the it Seemed that imagine the controversy that would follow minutes after, in the Parliament, with the Assumption Ridges accusing Costa and "lie" to say that the agreement was already signed. were Not collected all of the signatures. At that time, the agreement on Social Dialogue was running in the streets of Lisbon, to get the António Saraiva (CIP), which was the signing that followed. Contacted by the Observer, the Ministry of Labour ensures that by the end of this Tuesday, all parties will sign the agreement (there was only João Vieira Lopes, of the CCP).
When you have the signatures of all parties, the document follows to be approved by the Council, Economic and Social — which should happen this Tuesday and Wednesday — which is the entity responsible to make it available to the public through its official website.
Only this time, the story does not stop here. The document is already at risk. In fact, already was before it was even signed, before the threat of a lead parliamentary to the compensation promised to the bosses. In the UGT, Carlos Silva warns that it is difficult to find an alternative: "I Recognize that it is not easy. Neither the PSD would have suggested, as hinted in 2014, the discount of the TSU, if there was an alternative. I don’t know that the rabbit Government can still take the hat". But the secretary-general of the union who accepted to sign the agreement (the CGTP was left out) also acknowledges that a lead to the reduction of the TSU "it does not allow to jeopardise the agreement."
In the CAP, John Machado also says that "it is very difficult to find alternatives. We have four months to negotiate and we have not found alternatives. The discount must be direct". But the issue was not much discussed at the meeting of the previous day with the Coast. "For now, the focus is to comply with the agreement. The interlocutor is the Government that pledged to stick to it," says the Observer John Machado. The parliamentary consideration which has advanced already by the hand of the PCP and BE (the other partners of the Government on another front, the parliamentary) have 30 days to be discussed by the parties, but the discussion should be already marked this Wednesday, at the meeting of the parliamentary leaders.
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