According to the arbitration panel’s decision, the prison guards’ strike called by the National Union of the Prison Guard Corps, starting on September 13 and running until October 5, will include minimum services. Unlike other strikes in various prison facilities, these services will ensure weekly visits to inmates and the delivery of clothing bags.
Minimum services will also cover the “weekly canteen” for inmates, allowing them to purchase products and food, and their right to attend educational and training activities.
Excluded from these services is the wine harvesting work at this prison facility, which is responsible for producing award-winning wines sold commercially.
Frederico Morais, President of the National Union of the Prison Guard Corps, expressed no concerns about the arbitration panel’s decision and welcomed the exclusion of wine harvesting from the minimum services.
Morais was pleased with the decision, emphasizing that the presence of guards to ensure the facility’s security should take precedence over supervising harvesting work.
He mentioned that just on Wednesday, a man was detained for illegally entering Alcoentre prison and introducing mobile phones thrown into the yard from a nearby field.
The strike beginning on September 13 is an escalation from the previous action limited to overtime, demanding overtime pay and the standardization of shift schedules for all prison guard members.
