CP strikes should have less impact over the weekend

Strikes at CP will continue over the weekend, but the impact is expected to ease, with drivers expected to go on strike on Saturday and overtime, and ticket inspectors and workers joining the protest on Sunday.

Thus, from Saturday to Wednesday, the strike called by the Machinists' Union (SMAQ) will continue, covering only overtime work, including work on a weekly rest day, according to information on the union's website.

A new strike will begin on Sunday, also until Wednesday, by the Commercial Itinerant Railway Review Union (SFRCI), ticket inspectors and ticket office workers.

This strike is partial, taking place between 5:00 and 8:30 on Monday and Tuesday, as explained to Lusa by the president of SFRCI, Luís Bravo. On Sunday and Wednesday, the strike will only affect long-distance trains "in a residual way", he added.

Furthermore, for this strike, the Arbitration Court decreed 25% minimum services, with the list of trains being available on the CP website.

From Wednesday, May 7th until today, several unions, including SMAQ, have been on strike, and in this case there were no minimum services, which resulted in a total stoppage of traffic.

SMAQ demands compliance with the agreement reached on April 24 between CP's management and the unions, considering that "the Government cannot want the merits of the negotiation and then shirk its responsibilities in its implementation".

The strike, which began on Wednesday and will last until May 14, was called against the imposition of wage increases "that do not restore purchasing power", for "collective negotiation of decent wage increases" and for "implementation of the agreement to restructure wage scales, under the terms in which it was negotiated and agreed", said the unions.

Strikes at CP will continue over the weekend, but the impact is expected to ease, with drivers expected to go on strike on Saturday and overtime, and ticket inspectors and workers joining the protest on Sunday.

Thus, from Saturday to Wednesday, the strike called by the Machinists' Union (SMAQ) will continue, covering only overtime work, including work on a weekly rest day, according to information on the union's website.

A new strike will begin on Sunday, also until Wednesday, by the Commercial Itinerant Railway Review Union (SFRCI), ticket inspectors and ticket office workers.

This strike is partial, taking place between 5:00 and 8:30 on Monday and Tuesday, as explained to Lusa by the president of SFRCI, Luís Bravo. On Sunday and Wednesday, the strike will only affect long-distance trains "in a residual way", he added.

Furthermore, for this strike, the Arbitration Court decreed 25% minimum services, with the list of trains being available on the CP website.

From Wednesday, May 7th until today, several unions, including SMAQ, have been on strike, and in this case there were no minimum services, which resulted in a total stoppage of traffic.

SMAQ demands compliance with the agreement reached on April 24 between CP's management and the unions, considering that "the Government cannot want the merits of the negotiation and then shirk its responsibilities in its implementation".

The strike, which began on Wednesday and will last until May 14, was called against the imposition of wage increases "that do not restore purchasing power", for "collective negotiation of decent wage increases" and for "implementation of the agreement to restructure wage scales, under the terms in which it was negotiated and agreed", said the unions.

Strikes at CP will continue over the weekend, but the impact is expected to ease, with drivers expected to go on strike on Saturday and overtime, and ticket inspectors and workers joining the protest on Sunday.

Thus, from Saturday to Wednesday, the strike called by the Machinists' Union (SMAQ) will continue, covering only overtime work, including work on a weekly rest day, according to information on the union's website.

A new strike will begin on Sunday, also until Wednesday, by the Commercial Itinerant Railway Review Union (SFRCI), ticket inspectors and ticket office workers.

This strike is partial, taking place between 5:00 and 8:30 on Monday and Tuesday, as explained to Lusa by the president of SFRCI, Luís Bravo. On Sunday and Wednesday, the strike will only affect long-distance trains "in a residual way", he added.

Furthermore, for this strike, the Arbitration Court decreed 25% minimum services, with the list of trains being available on the CP website.

From Wednesday, May 7th until today, several unions, including SMAQ, have been on strike, and in this case there were no minimum services, which resulted in a total stoppage of traffic.

SMAQ demands compliance with the agreement reached on April 24 between CP's management and the unions, considering that "the Government cannot want the merits of the negotiation and then shirk its responsibilities in its implementation".

The strike, which began on Wednesday and will last until May 14, was called against the imposition of wage increases "that do not restore purchasing power", for "collective negotiation of decent wage increases" and for "implementation of the agreement to restructure wage scales, under the terms in which it was negotiated and agreed", said the unions.