“The strike always has an impact, although it is also clear that there was little impact on private initiatives and farmers, just as during the [COVID-19] pandemic they never stopped working, with no shortage of food on the table,” said José Manuel Fernandes to journalists in Brussels, on the sidelines of the EU ministerial council meeting.
Thursday’s general strike against the government’s labor law reform draft will be the first to unite the two major trade unions, CGTP and UGT, since June 2013, when Portugal was under the ‘troika’ intervention.
