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5 postal unions, representing more than 75% of the CTT Portugal Post's workers have refused and oppose the Company proposals to change the CTT Collective Agreement. The proposals by the company are extremely serious for the future of the CTT workers and are totally unacceptable to the unions. The company is also considering an unacceptable reduction of the number of workers.



The company's proposals in respect of the collective are;

• the total deregulation of the daily and weekly working time, so that there could be 10 hours per day;
  
• that each worker can have more than one work place with up to 30 km between them;
  
• the possibility to move workers, arbitrarily, up to 100 km from their normal place of work and being able to compel them to return daily to that place;
  
• to finish the automatic wage step increases currently existing and to transform them into wage increases exclusively dependent on the evaluation of the management and without rules negotiated with the unions;
  
• the Company also refuses to extend the CTT Collective Agreement to the workers of their subsidiary companies;

Finally, but the most important question, the Company wants to modify a currently existing clause that defines the period of the Collective Agreement but not maximum, that if the unions accepted the proposal of the they would be without a Collective Agreement in two years and the workers conditions would pass to be only governed by the General Law, thus losing everything the unions have negotiated into the collective during the last 34 years.