Portugal -High mobilisation for civil servants strike March 13, 2015

Apr 6, 2015 - The workers are striking to demand higher wages, accumulation of tenure, the maintenance of the 35-hours working week.

Unions report a mobilisation of above 80% in the 13 March civil servants’ strike. The workers are striking to demand higher wages, accumulation of tenure, the maintenance of the 35-hours working week and a halt to a draft law that would allow workers to be fired without just cause. The strike affected rubbish removals, hospitals, fire departments, school, health and social services and judicial workers.

English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/large-participation-in-strike-action ...  

For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.

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