A nationwide strike has been announced by the Union of Performing Arts, Audiovisual Workers, and Musicians, CENA-STE, for September 20. This strike affects all work shifts across the country.
The strike notice includes all workers in the performing arts and audiovisual sectors to participate in this protest day against the labor package scheduled for September 20 by CGTP-IN.
The workers are protesting for salary increases and rights, expressing opposition to rising living costs, and advocating for public services and the state’s social functions.
The workers also demand a “withdrawal of the widespread attack on rights and the repeal of damaging provisions in labor legislation.”
The Union indicated in the strike notice that there are no urgent and essential services expected during the strike period, thus no proposals for their organization are being made.
CGTP has called for demonstrations in Lisbon and Porto on September 20 against the government’s draft labor legislation revision, urging workers to mobilize against what it describes as “an assault on rights” and “an affront to the Constitution.”
“Given the seriousness of the content and the Government’s schedule, with meetings already set for next month, CGTP-IN considers it crucial to advance with worker awareness and a day of struggle in September, marking rejection of the labor package and mobilization and action to defeat it,” stated CGTP’s General Secretary, Tiago Oliveira.
According to CGTP, the Government’s draft labor legislation revision “attacks a wide range of rights,” including proposals that “aim to perpetuate and worsen low wages, promote schedule deregulation, multiply reasons and extend deadlines for precarious contracts, facilitate dismissals, and limit worker defense and reintegration.”
To enable worker participation in the planned demonstrations in Lisbon and Porto, strike notices will be issued across various activity sectors, as noted by the CGTP leader.
The Government’s preliminary draft for labor legislation reform, currently under negotiation with social partners, plans to revise “more than a hundred” articles of the Labor Code.
