CP canceled 60 trains of the 254 scheduled between 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. this Wednesday due to the workers’ strike, mostly urban in Lisbon and regional, according to data sent by the company to Lusa.
CP – Comboios de Portugal needs one of the 66 planned regional trains 23 connections were not made and in urban Lisbon 115 were programmed and 26 were deleted.
In Porto’s urban trains, 53 were scheduled for that period, six having been suppressed, and in long-distance trains, 11 of the 12 planned connections were made.
After several days of strike between 00:00 and 02:00 and a whole day last Thursday, until April 30, the strike at IP and CP will be after the eighth hour of service.
Until the end of the month, “at CP, workers whose normal work day covers more than three hours in the period between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. will enter on strike from the seventh hour of service“.
These stoppages were decreed by a platform of unions made up of ASCEF – Union Association of Middle Managers of Railway Exploration; SINFB – National Union of Railway Workers of Braçais and Allied; o SINFA – Independent Union of Railway, Infrastructure and Allied Workers; o FENTECOP – National Union of Transport, Communications and Public Works; SIOFA – Independent Union of Railway Workers and the like; ASSIFECO – Independent Trade Union Association of Commercial Railway Workers and STF – Railway Technical Services.
The National Union of Machinists of the Portuguese Railways (SMAQ) is also on strike throughout the month of April, due to the “attitude of contempt” of which it accuses the company.
Among the demands of the workers are “Effective salary increases”“valuing the traction race” and improving the working conditions in the driver’s cabs and social facilities and the safety conditions on the roads and parks where motor equipment is protected.
They continue to denounce a “humanization of shifts, fixed meal times and reduced rest outside the headquarters”, an “effective psychological monitoring protocol for train drivers in the event of accidents and claims” and the “recognition and assessment of professional requirements and the training of train drivers due to the new legislative framework”.
Source: Observadora
