The federation has announced its support for the general strike scheduled for December 11, in a statement to newsrooms, aiming to “reject the labor package that attacks rights and affronts the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.”
FEVICCOM emphasizes that the Government’s draft labor law reforms will facilitate “dismissals and their ‘legalization’ without just cause, deregulate working hours and implement individual hour banks, perpetuate job insecurity, weaken maternity and paternity rights, attack collective bargaining, limit trade union freedom, and constrain the right to strike, among other issues.”
By joining the strike, the federation of unions seeks to defend employment with rights and collective bargaining, “dignified salaries, regulated working hours and a 35-hour workweek, the recognition of shift work, the improvement of maternity and paternity rights, union freedom, and the right to strike.”
FEVICCOM directs its appeal to all employer associations and entities of any legal nature in the sectors covered by the federation, such as construction and public works, ceramics, cement, glass, optics, concrete, wood, cork, marble, cement products, among others.
The general strike on December 11 against the Government’s draft labor law reforms will be the first to bring together the two union centers, CGTP and UGT, since June 2013, when Portugal was under ‘troika’ intervention.
