Workers at the Porto Public Transport Company (STCP) will go on strike for 26 hours from midnight on Monday, called by the STRUN union, but some minimum services will be guaranteed by the transport company.
The strike will begin at midnight on Monday and will last until 2 am on Tuesday. Service is expected to resume normal on Tuesday morning.
During the strike period, some minimum services are guaranteed, covering daytime, nighttime and the entire network at dawn, STCP announced on Friday.
In the daytime service (between 6am and 9pm) the following lines are in question: 200, 201, 204, 205, 207, 208, 305, 500, 502, 600, 602, 700, 701, 702, 704, 801, 901/906, 903 and 907, and in the night service the lines 200, 204, 205, 305, 502, 600, 602, 700, 701, 702, 801, 901/906, 903 and 907.
On the early morning network, all journeys will be guaranteed on lines 1M, 2M, 3M, 4M, 5M, 7M, 8M, 9M, 10M, 11M, 12M and 13M.
On July 8, the coordinator of the STCP Workers’ Commission, João Paulo Silva, confirmed the strike, called by the Northern Urban Road Transport Union (STRUN), considering that the administration did not respond in a timely manner to the proposal for a salary review of no less than 8%.
João Paulo Silva explained that workers consider the salary update carried out by STCP management to be insufficient – 2% in January and 4.7% in April.
Around 400 workers met in plenary, discussing the salary update of the 2024 base table, changes to the Professional Development System (SEP) and compliance with the Company Agreement.
The workers also demand that changes to the SEP “be made in the name of the system’s functionality, without worsening the evaluation parameters or jeopardizing current automations”.
They also demand “full respect” for company agreements, “without interpretative changes, namely justified absences, sole agent and assistance in case of illness”.
STCP management noted that “it reached a commitment for the current year, last May, with four of the five unions representing its workers”.
“These four unions represent the majority of the company’s workers. The only union that did not sign this commitment was STRUN,” he added.
Source: expresso.pt
