Nothe letter to the Local Administration Workers Union (STAL and the inter-union federation Fiequim “to hold the Grupo Águas de Portugal Board of Directors responsible for the 24-hour strike that the workers will carry out this Thursday (30), in defense of their professional and valorization”.
According to the statement as union structures, the strike was called “following the withdrawal of the commission negotiated from the company which, in unacceptable and revealing bad faith, withdrew the proposal that was to be negotiated”.
STAL and Fiequimetal “demand that the Board of Directors of AdP immediately apply, by management act and with retroactive effect to January 1 of this year” the proposal that was withdrawn “and that the process continue”.
“The resolution of workers’ problems is in the hands of the Board of Directors, for the responsibility scheduled for this Thursday (the 30th) is their sole and entire responsibility”blame the structures.
For the two structures indicated, the general or dos “is not a “favor” of the company, but rather “it is due to the effort, efficiency and productivity that more than 415 million euros of profits is not possible”.
The strike was announced on Tuesday, in a statement, by STAL and Fiequimetal.
In a publicized disclosed, the unions strike that indicate from July increase; and an 850-year minimum wage increase for the first few years; and a minimum wage of 850 years in 2023. in the AdP Group”.
It also aims to claim the right to collective bargaining, a new professional career regime, “that value experience and recognize a professional and the commitment of workers”, and the use of a supplement of hardship and professional risk “.
Among the goals of the strike is also the struggle for “job stability, putting an end to precarious work in the group”as well as an application of the EPAL Company Agreement to all workers employed by this company and a working period of seven hours a day and 35 hours a week at the AdP Group.
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