The workers of the contact centers and stores of the EDP group, subcontracted to external companies, will be on strike between Monday and Saturday, demanding salary and professional recognition, according to a Fiequimetal statement.
“The workers of the contact centers and stores, which ensure important activities of the EDP group companies, approved the holding of a week of struggle, for salary and professional appreciation,” said the Inter-Union Federation of Metallurgical, Chemical, Electrical, Pharmaceutical, Cellulose, Paper, Graphics, Press, Energy and Mining Industries (Fiequimetal), in the same note.
The initiative, led by the federation and its unions SIESI (Union of the Electrical Industries of the South and Islands), Sitio Norte (Union of Workers of the Transformational Industries, Energy and Environmental Activities), Sitio Centro-Norte and Sitio Centro-Sur and Regions The autonomous regions “will take the form of strikes in stores, from August 14 to 19, and in contact centers, on August 14 and 16,” he highlighted.
According to the union organization, “the fight has objectives that have already justified other days and to which the workers do not give up” and that include “fighting precariousness and demanding a job with rights.”
The workers demand a “general increase in wages and better rights, equating one and the other with those in force in the EDP group companies for which they work”, the fight against “the daily pressure on employment, with which the companies seek to obtain more objective sales, less service time”, among others, and the defense of service quality and better working conditions.
According to Fiequimetal, actions will be carried out in the streets, stores and contact centers, and on Wednesday the 16th, “rallies will be held in Lisbon, in front of the Assembly of the Republic, at 9:30 a.m., and in Seia, in front of the contact center of EDP, at 9 in the morning”.
In the statement, the union structure also pointed out that “it is time for service providers and EDP, which resorts to outsourcing essential operations for its activity, to respond to the book of claims delivered.”
EDP subcontracted workers have staged several strikes and demonstrations in recent months demanding better conditions and more similar to those practiced by the electricity company.
Source: Observadora
