CP workers start the strike today.190 trains at minimum service

The strike was unleashed by the Railway Inspectors Union of Trade Unions (SFRCI) and the Union Association of Directors of Intermediate Railway Operations (ASCEF), which dispute the "violation of the agreement concluded with the government in September 2017, concerning the recruitment of 88 operational workers […] in the itinerant commercial zone and for the CP windows. "

The two structures also claim that the Executive and CP are "in a situation of non-compliance with the workers" that they represent in negotiating the collective agreement contract since October 1 of this year, stating that "they have taken several initiatives and made appeals to the company and the government so that the negotiation process is completed, and that they still have not gotten answers to the proposals of the agreement of 39, business and at the regulation of careers presented "

As announced on Friday, the minimum strike services of CP include the circulation of nearly 190 trains, in the urban services of Lisbon, in the urban areas of Porto, on the Cascais line and on the line Setúbal.

According to the decision announced at the stop called by SFRCI and ASCEF, in the urban trains of Porto. the CP will determine the minimum services "according to the following criteria": "in the Guimarães family: three trains in each direction"

"Family Braga: six convoys upstream and four downstream;

Regarding the Lisbon city, there will be eight convoys in the city of Azambuja, Castanheira do

For Sintra-Lisboa Oriente, there should be 13 trains in each direction and between Lisbon Rossio and Melecas, four trains in each direction. [19659003] In the line of Cascais, 15 trains were determined towards Cais do Sodré-Cascais and 16 in the opposite direction, while in the "Oeiras family", there were eight trains determined

At the base of the definition of public services is the duration of "day in"

The court also noted that there were "other means of transport capable of meeting social needs", access to care health and safety services and, partisan t,

On 18 July, CP Comboios de Portugal warned of "serious disturbances" in the train traffic on 24 and 25 December, eve and Christmas day, due to the strike announced by two structures.

In a statement, the company said at the time that "because of the strike […] the removal of the trains at the national level has the services on 24 and 25 December."

The carrier plans also disruptions in train traffic on December 26th.