“What the preliminary draft aims to do, it seems to me, is try to find solutions for problems that quite frankly do not exist and creates new problems, including issues of unconstitutionality,” stated Carlos Alves, executive secretary of the General Union of Workers (UGT), who was heard today in parliament following a request from Chega’s parliamentary group.
The draft labor law reform proposes to include food supply, childcare services, care for the elderly, sick, and people with disabilities, and “private security services for essential goods or equipment” in the sectors that will be covered by minimum services in the event of a strike.
The Government has justified the intention to expand minimum services by balancing the right to strike with the fulfillment of essential social needs.
According to the executive secretary of this labor union, the Government is responding to “what is an illusion.”
“It is a social perception, which tends to be generated, especially in street interviews, but it does not at all constitute the image that the population has about the right to strike,” he added during the hearing at the Committee on Labor, Social Security, and Inclusion in parliament.
