The company states in a communiqué that the decision has a “particularly severe impact” and compromises “the fulfillment of essential mobility needs of citizens” in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, emphasizing the “structural role” it plays in public transport.
“Metropolitano de Lisboa reaffirms that it is possible to reconcile the right to strike with ensuring a minimum level of safe, reliable, and predictable mobility,” it indicates.
It further reiterates that the defense of public interest, customer safety, and service continuity “are fundamental and permanent principles of its operation.”
At Metropolitano de Lisboa, the Arbitration Court of the CES unanimously decided “not to set minimum services regarding train circulation.”
The CGTP has scheduled protests for Thursday, in 15 districts, in the Azores and Madeira.
CGTP and UGT have decided to call a general strike for December 11, in response to the preliminary draft law reforming labor legislation, presented by the Government.
This will be the first strike uniting the two union confederations since June 2013, when Portugal was under the intervention of the ‘troika’.
