Fiequimetal and the river transport union agreed with ICD and Iberlim on minimum services to guarantee supply at Lisbon, Lajes and Santa Maria airports, but an agreement for Transtejo Soflusa failed.
The CGTP and the UGT decided to call a general strike for December 11th, in response to the draft law to reform labor legislation, presented by the Government.
According to the minutes published by the General Directorate of Employment and Labor Relations (DGERT), ICD and Fiequimetal – Inter-Union Federation of Metallurgical, Chemical, Electrical, Pharmaceutical, Cellulose, Paper, Printing, Press, Energy and Mining Industries, the definition of minimum services took into account a request made by Galp to ensure the supply provided at Lisbon Airport, where it has 13 workers per shift, and at the airports in the Azores on the islands of Lajes and Santa Maria, where it has, respectively, two and four workers.
Galp also operates at Beja airport, where there are also two workers.
Fiequimetal’s proposal, accepted by ICD, determines two workers per shift for Lisbon airport, one for Lajes airport and one for Santa Maria.
The trade union federation justified its decision with the fact that there is not just one company providing supplies at Lisbon Airport.
On the other hand, he highlighted that the minimum services must be proportional to the flights that are also defined as minimum services.
Iberlim and STFCMM – Union of River, Coastal and Merchant Marine Workers agreed to ensure the “strictly necessary services” at the company to ensure the minimum services decreed by the arbitration court.
However, they did not reach agreement on the definition of minimum services at Transtejo Soflusa.
The union considered that the definition of minimum services conditions the free exercise of the right to strike.
After the announcement of the general strike, the Ministry of Labor delivered a new proposal to the UGT, with some changes to the preliminary project presented in July, but which the union central said was “too little” to cancel the strike.
In the document, the Government concedes on matters such as simplifying dismissals in medium-sized companies or reducing the number of mandatory training hours in micro-enterprises, opening the door to restoring the three days of vacation linked to attendance abolished in the ‘troika’, among others, but maintains some measures that are highly criticized by trade unions, such as the return of the individual time bank or the repeal of the rule that provides for restrictions on ‘outsourcing’ in the event of dismissal.
The Government has been defending that this strike is “untimely” and that it is based on political reasons.