O SIMMPER joins the general strike called by the trade union centers UGT and CGTP, considering the “unprecedented attack on labor rights” in the labor package proposed by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro’s executive, stated the communiqué sent to the editorial offices.
“No worker can remain indifferent to this intention of increasing precariousness, dismantling union action and collective bargaining, restricting the right to strike, among many others,” SIMMPER adds.
The union warns that the proposed amendment to the labor law must be abandoned, with the final document including changes and restorations of labor rights removed in the past, particularly during the ‘troika’ period in Portugal from April 2011 to May 2014.
Thursday’s general strike against the Government’s draft labor law reform will be the first stoppage to unite the two trade union centers, CGTP and UGT, since June 2013, when Portugal was under the ‘troika’s’ intervention.
