Steers announce four weeks of strike to supplementary work.
The approximately 530 workers claim freedom of association membership. The strike lasts until September 10.
The port workers associated with the Stevedoring and Logistics Activity Union (SEAL) decreed this Monday to strike additional work, between August 13 and September 10, demanding freedom of union membership.
"We announce the decision ... to declare, between August 13 and September 10, four consecutive weeks of strike to supplementary work, so that SEAL members will only be available during their normal shift," he said. union president, António Mariano. The decision comes as a result of the stevedores' strike against SEAL's "stalking situations", which ended on Saturday.
In Leixões, "once workers have joined the union, their earnings have been halved," while there are offers of "thousands of euros" for workers to marry, said the SEAL president, last Thursday, in statements to Lusa. António Mariano also stressed that the most prepared employees to deal with the technological equipment are deployed to "sweep the dock and carry parallelepipeds". The strike took place in the ports of Lisbon, Leixões, Caniçal Setúbal, Sines, Figueira da Foz, Ponta Delgada and Praia da Vitória. According to the trade unionist, with a 100% adhesion, the protest showed that the workers in question "are a fundamental piece for the global operation of the national ports".
"Port operations stopped at 100% in Figueira da Foz, Lisbon, Setúbal and Praia da Vitória. In the ports of Leixões and Caniçal ... the effects of the declared strike were felt only partially as a result of the collaborationism expressed by the local unions, which, of course, stuck our solidarity strike because they are also part of the problem, "reads the communiqué .
Meanwhile, in the port of Leixões, the effects of the strike were "significant, with work rates much slower than usual," while in Caniçal, Madeira, in the face of union membership joining the strike, local companies diverted mechanics, electricians and other servants who were working in other Sousa Group workshops into the port. " In total, about 530 employees are members of the SEAL.
