The strike scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week at Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) was called off, the Association of Portuguese Railway Command and Control Professionals (Aprofer) announced on Friday.
After a round of negotiations between Aprofer and IP SA, which took place yesterday [quinta-feira] in Lisbon, and in a context of social responsibility, both on our part and on the part of our negotiating partner, the 24-hour strike was called off, which was scheduled for August 1, 3 and 5, 2022″, advances the union association in a sentence
The strike included traffic supervisors, permanent general infrastructure supervisors, circulation operators and permanent general infrastructure operators and, last Wednesday, had led CP to alert the possibility of “strong disturbances” in the circulation of trains
In the statement released this Friday, Aprofer also clarifies that “it is not linked to any trade union center”, since it was created “in 2007 by a group of workers who belonged, at that time, to the PCL (local command) of Campolide” and which, later, with the creation of the CCO (Operative Command Centers) of Refer, expanded to a national level”.
Currently, he says, “represents more than 70% of unionized and non-unionized workersbeing “also represented in Metro do Porto”.
Source: Observadora
