The Union Association of Tax and Customs Inspection Professionals (APIT) announced that it will join the civil servants’ strike on November 18, demanding salary increases that restore purchasing power and better working conditions.
In a statement sent to the newsrooms on Monday, announcing the decision to join the strike called by the Common Front of Public Services Unions, the PIT specifies that the Treasury and Customs inspectors “Do not be fooled by the promises and illusions that the Government sells about a future, which everyone recognizes as absolutely uncertain.”
“After more than a decade of salary freezes that led civil servants to an average loss of purchasing power of 11%, the government with an absolute majority of the PS — Socialist Party presents us as a solution the loss of one more monthly salary for years 2022 and 2023 as a whole”, says APIT.
This strike will serve, he says, to fight against the “maintenance of an unacceptable drop” in purchasing power and demand “adequate wage increases”.
Among the reasons for the fight, APIT also included an “urgent” and “true” review of AT special careers, the review of the performance evaluation system (SIADAP), the elimination of cuts in “Personal allowances”, the reinforcement of the employees of the Tax and Customs Authority (TA) or the existence of basic working conditions, indicating the specific case of computer equipment and the facilities themselves.
The Common Front of Public Administration Unions decided to call a general strike for November 18, one week before the final vote on the State Budget for 2023.
On the occasion, the union structure headed by Sebastião Santana reported that the Government’s proposal for salary increases of 3.6%, “when the expected inflation is now 7.8% for this year, and for the next it will not be zero” , is “an impoverishment proposal” that the workers cannot accept.
Source: Observadora
