The STML has announced a 24-hour strike notice covering all workers in the Lisbon City Council, parish councils, and municipal companies.
“This formalizes the adherence to the General Strike called by CGTP-IN against the labor package and the government policy that impoverishes workers (…) and represents a severe setback in their rights, guarantees, and living conditions,” the statement reads.
The STML explains that, besides aligning with the general objectives of the general strike, it includes specific claims from Lisbon municipal workers detailed in the Common Claim Proposal for 2026 submitted to the government by the Common Front of Public Administration Unions.
The demands include a 15% salary increase, with a minimum of 150 euros per worker, career and profession enhancement, and the identification and regulation of high-burnout professions.
STML also advocates for updating the meal subsidy to 12 euros and all remuneration supplements, including unhealthiness and hardship, full restoration of the right to compensation for work accidents or occupational diseases, as well as the defense of collective bargaining, particularly existing company agreements in municipal companies.
The union also emphasizes the need to reinforce and invest in public services, including hiring more workers, improving the conditions of facilities, and acquiring the necessary material and mechanical means for daily work.
“The general strike is the highest and broadest struggle involving all workers, whose strength will be decisive in defeating the labor package and ensuring respect for their rights, their salary and pension increases, inseparable from the quality and improvement of public services to which the public is entitled,” the note concludes.
CGTP-IN and UGT announced a general strike for December 11 against the government proposal, marking the first joint stoppage since June 2013, when Portugal was under ‘troika’ intervention.
