Cimpor workers begin a four-day strike this Tuesday, until Friday, for salary increases of 8%, 37 hours a week starting in January, compensation for shift work, among other demands.
The Federation of Construction, Ceramics and Glass Unions (Feviccom) stated, in a statement released last week, that they are calling for concentrations of striking workers at 8:00 a.m. on each day of the strike, next to the entrance. of the Maia factories. , Souselas, Alhandra, Alenquer and Loulé.
The strike spread to more companies in the groupalso covering the workers of Ciarga – Argamassas and, on the 18th, those of Cimpor – Serviços and Sacopor.
Workers demand 8% wage increases in 2024a minimum of 200 euros, a normal working day of 37 hours per week as of January 1, 2025, payment of annuities, remuneration for shift work, continuous vacations and payment of the fifteenth month of salary.
Among the demands are also school support for workers’ children, transportation and travel allowances, the expansion of professional progression for various professional categories, the creation of a new professional category of Electrical and Electronic Conservation Manager and improvements in the prevention service.
“The administration avoided negotiations and decided to proceed unilaterally with a 4.5% salary update and other pecuniary issues, which is far from the workers’ demands, in addition to refusing to negotiate the reduction of weekly hours, improvements in professional careers and the application of health support to all workers, retirees and their families”, Feviccom explained.
According to the union center, Cimpor, recently acquired by the Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC), “is part of the third largest cement group in the world, with sufficient economic and financial conditions to respond positively to the workers’ proposals.”
The strike in defense of the proposed revision of the Company Agreement was decided by the workers in the recent plenary sessions held in the factories, “more than twenty years after the last strike,” according to the coordinator of Feviccom, Fátima Messias.
Source: Observadora
