Portuguese postal workers to strike against wage freeze

Publié: 22 Avril 2010
Google translate: 

GENERAL STRIKE IN THE CTT – CORREIOS DE PORTUGAL, SA (PORTUGUESE POSTES)



APRIL 27th



AGAINST THE WAGE FREEZE THAT THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT TRIES TO FORCE ON PUBLIC AND SUBSIDIARY STATE COMPANIES



The Portuguese Government presented in Parliament a package of measures to combat the effects of the economic crisis that called PEC – Plano de Estabilidade e Crescimento (stability and growth pact). The document only received the votes of the Government Party but it still intends to implement it.



Two of the measures contained in the document will seriously affect the CTT’s workers if implemented:



- Wage freeze for 3 years;



- Privatisation of the Company by 2013.



By not accepting such proposals, the SNTCT and the CTT’s workers decided, on the subject of a wage wage freeze, to order a 24 hours General Strike for 24hrs on April 27.



Early in May SNTCT members will begin the fight against the CTT’s privatisation.