Portugal - Massive gap between government and public sector unions - February 15, 2010

The SINTAP public service trade union has reported on its first meeting with the government over the 2010 negotiations, saying that there is an enormous gap between union demands and what is on offer from the government. The union rejects the idea of a pay freeze, arguing that more efficient management can deliver cost savings to finance a pay rise. It also rejects the planned reforms to the pension system.

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/354; Portuguese: http://www.sintap.pt/

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.