CP canceled 65 trains of the 254 scheduled between 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. this Tuesday due to the workers’ strike, mostly urban in Lisbon and regional, according to data sent by the company to Lusa.
CP – Comboios de Portugal indicates that of the 66 regional trains planned 26 calls were not made and in urban Lisbon, 115 were programmed and 28 were cancelled.
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.
Until the end of the month”In CP, workers whose normal work day covers more than three hours in the period between 24:00 and 05:00 hours, will enter on strike since 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”, the “valorization of the haulage career” and the improvement of working conditions in the driver’s cabs and social facilities and of the safety conditions on the roads and parks for the protection of the motor material. .
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
