Cabin crew represented by the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel (SNPVAC) approved this Monday, November 24th, in an emergency general meeting, joining the general strike on December 11th.
According to the statement sent to members to which Lusa had access, 2,802 union members participated in the vote, of which 2,305 voted in favor of joining, 320 against and 177 abstained.
The emergency meeting was called after the union accused the Government of calling “reform” what it considers to be “the dismantling of labor guarantees”, within the scope of the draft revision of the Labor Code.
In a statement issued last week, SNPVAC had argued that the executive “is not reforming the Labor Code, it is testing the country”, pointing out that the proposed changes have “huge repercussions on the aviation sector”.
The union rejected the statements of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, who accused the CGTP and UGT unions and the unions of “political opportunism” for having called a joint general strike.
For the union, this accusation reveals “a deeply unfair and disrespectful view of the role of the union movement”, at the same time that the Government “tries to transform unions into enemies of the economy”.
“There is no modernity when legislating against those who work. And there is no social dialogue when the Government responds to the challenge with accusations of opportunism”, highlighted the union structure in the statement issued on November 19, considering that the Government’s draft labor review “is an unprecedented civilizational setback and is not even aligned with the economies that this Government has as a reference”.
CGTP and UGT announced a general strike for December 11th against the Government’s proposal, in what will be the first joint strike since June 2013, when Portugal was under intervention by the ‘troika’.