23% of railway connections canceled until 8 in the morning due to the strike

CP canceled 58 trains of the 252 scheduled between 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. this Wednesday, due to the workers’ strike, most of them urban and regional, according to company data sent to Lusa.

CP – Comboios de Portugal indicates that of the 66 regional trains planned 23 calls were not made and in urban Lisbon, 113 and 25 were eliminated.

In Porto’s urban trains, 53 were scheduled for that period, five having been suppressed, and in long-distance trains, 11 of the 12 planned connections were made.

Until SundayIn 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 go on strike after the seventh hour of service.

These stoppages were decreed by a platform of unions made up of ASCEF – Union Association of Intermediate 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 this month, given 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. .

The workers also ask for a “humanization of shifts, fixed meal times and reduction of rest outside the headquarters”, an “effective psychological monitoring protocol for train drivers in case of picking up people on the road and accidents”. and the “recognition and appreciation of the professional and training requirements of train drivers by the new legislative framework”.