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Leaders from UNI Post & Logistics Portuguese affiliate, SNTCT have finished their hunger strike which lasted 53 hours (from 10:00AM Nov. 7 until 15:00PM Nov. 9). SNTCT report the strike was successful and and produced some of the results the union were seeking.



Their action had an unprecedented media coverage highlighting the struggles SNTCT workers have had in getting the CTT Correios to recognise the justified demands of CTT workers. This media coverage means that now Portuguese people understand the problems that led SNTCT to go on hunger strike.



Some CTT workers in other UNI Post & Logistics affiliates have already signed a new contract, but SNTCT was not satisfied that the new contract met what they said were their justified demands. Now they have received support from other CTT Unions for their struggle.



One union used a contact they had in the Assembly of the Republic to call on the Minister of Transport and Communications to make statements on the situation in CTT Correios. As a result two days ago SNTCT received a response from the ACT - Authority for Working Conditions (the General Labour Inspectorate) to one of their complaints, about wage discrimination. The ACT has accused the CTT of violation of the Portuguese Constitution and the Labour Code (Labour Law). The ACT has now raised a "Statement of News" and invited the SNTCT to be a formal applicant in the judicial process to deal with this contravention. SNTCT have accepted that invitation.



SNTCT believes that some of their justified demands have still not been met and so far it still does not have a response from the Labour Minister to their repeated requests for a meeting to discuss the situation. A complaint to the ILO that the SNTCT is proposing to make is almost ready and will be delivered once they have some answers the Labour Minister.