Lisbon Metro should only run from 9:30 am due to strike | transport
Metropolitano de Lisboa predicts that this Friday the service will not be in operation in the early hours of the morningwhen it usually starts at 6:30.
The workers took notice on 23 February from 11 to 18 March, between 5:00 and 9:00, taking into account what it describes as an assessment of the problems of the employees by the. In the released note, Metropolitano de Lisboa can benefit from the understanding of its customers and regret the occasional inconvenience that these strikes can cause”.
According to Anabela Carvalheira, from the Federation of Transport and Communications Unions (Fectrans), the strike on the 11th had a “high” turnout, having foreseen the operational sector and machinists; the carrier not distributed participation data. The circulation of trains started around 9:30 am.
“[O pré-aviso de greve] it has to do with working conditions, the lack of staff and the climate on the part of the management in relation to workers, which disturbs the proper functioning”, said the trade unionist at the time, in statements to the Lusa agency. The unions want the company to “put into practice a series of principles assumed with workers for a long time”, she added.
A commonist example considered that an administration should have the problems that should exist, in the area of the machinists, who, due to their underground working condition, “should have a calmer life”.
According to Fectrans, the prior notice is respected as decisions of the plenary sessions, so it covers all the heads of the Operations Directorate, as well as the train drivers.
In response to the Lu proposal, on the eve of this new one, Metropolitano de Lisboa said that it is “contraceptive to the proposals proposed to the illusion entities”.
“This is a bilateral response throughout the efforts of a job that has been proposed to its employees”, he said in the response to the process, noting that the company’s workers and long-term workers “I send all the jobs in the short sense of the space of shortest possible time”.