Workers from Valorsul, the company responsible for waste in the Lisbon and West region, will carry out a strike between May 22 and 26 to demand salary improvements and reduction of working hours.
According to the strike notice, delivered by the Union of Workers in the Manufacturing, Energy and Environmental Activities Industries of the South Center and Autonomous Regions, the strike will affect different sectors and infrastructure, depending on the day.
The reasons for this strike are related, among other things, to increase salaries and vacation days, improve safety conditions and reduce working hours, as indicated to the Lusa agency by Mário Matos, from the Valorsul Workers Committee.
“The reasons have to do with the fact that the company does not make proposals that meet the demands of the workers. In April they formulated a counterproposal that is unacceptable to us, since it is a bargaining chip,” he noted.
According to Mário Matos, Valorsul agreed to reduce the working day, “in exchange for workers agreeing to renounce the rights established in the Company Agreement.”
One of those rights, indicated the union leader, would be for lunch time to be included in the workers’ work day. “For us it is unacceptable. “We do not accept currency,” he stressed.
According to the strike schedule, the Urban Solid Waste Treatment Center (CTRSU) will be the first to suffer the effects, from 00:00 on May 22, where strikes will be carried out by shift.
In the coming days, the stoppage will also affect the maintenance, characterization and selective collection service, the Mato da Cruz Landfill and Slag Reclaimer (ASMC), the Western Health Center, the Classification and Transfer Stations, the Ecocenter and Lumiar and Organic Classification. Valuation Station.
The Lusa agency asked the Valorsul administration for a reaction, but did not receive a response.
Valorsul, with around 450 employees, is the company responsible for the treatment and recovery of recyclable waste and urban solid waste produced in 19 municipalities in the Lisbon and West regions.
Source: Observadora
