Ticket office workers at CP stations go on strike this Wednesday in defense of salary increases that restore purchasing power and better working conditions.
The 24-hour strike, called by the Railways Traveling Trade Review Union (SFRCI), is not expected to cause any disruption to train movement, but may cause inconvenience to passengers who are going to buy the social pass.
This time the strike involves only ticket sellers and their respective bosses, who number around 500 throughout the country, but for the Other strikes are planned for June 12 and 23 with all the workers.
SFRCI members participated with other unions in a 24-hour walkout on the 16th and inspectors, whom they represented, staged partial walkouts on May 23 and 27 in defense of wage increases and better working conditions.
According to the union, “CP management and the remain indifferent to the brutal increase in the cost of livingwith an inflation rate of 7.2%”, which “means that for a salary of 1,000 euros, workers lose 72 euros/month”.
Given the current situation, trade and transport workers “understand that values between 6.50 euros and 12.39 euros plus 0.14 euros in the per diem proposed by the CP are insufficient.”
box office workers they also complain of “deplorable working conditions”in several seasons without air conditioning and in premises with inadequate and old furniture.
The stoppages planned for June 12 and 23 are 24-hour stoppages, but the first takes place south of Pombal and the second north of Pombal.
CP – Comboios de Portugal announced on the 16th that reached an agreement with 12 unions to revise the Company Agreementleaving aside the three structures that called for the strike that took place on that date.
The agreement reached involved a salary increase of 0.9%, with retroactive effect to January 1, 2022, the homogenization of the meal allowance at 7.74 euros and the integration of former EMEF workers in the salary scale of CP , with retroactive effect to January 1.
The agreement also provides for the application to former EMEF workers of the rules established in the CP Company Agreement regarding work organization, assignments and remuneration variables.
Source: Observadora
