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The dockers' Friday strike was 100%, according to a source from the Union of Stowage and Logistics Activities (SEAL), which on Thursday introduced a strike warning overtime between August 13 and September 10.
SEAL source told the Lusa agency that "100% of members have joined the strike" and that the union represents about 600 workers, which in the general universe means "60 to 70 %. " [19659003] On the contrary, a source at the port of Leixões has already argued that the 24-hour closure does not take effect, and Lusa tried to contact, still unanswered, the Association of Merchant Navy Owners of Commerce and Portuguese Ports Association
On Thursday, the president of the handlers' union, António Mariano, justified the strike to defend freedom of association. According to the trade unionist, in Leixões, "once the workers have joined the union, their income has been cut in half", while "thousands of euros" are offered to workers to get married.
The new protest of the handlers in the ports of Lisbon, Setúbal, Sines, Figueira da Foz, Leixões, Caniçal, Ponta Delgada and Praia da Vitória will take place between 8am on 13th and 8am on 10th September.
A union source told Lusa that the "middle of May" usually reached the legal limit of 250 extra hours a year, since "the workload is much higher than the number of and casual workers are not quite a few or in training for specific tasks. "The same source adds that it is a profession of great wear, with a high risk of accidents.
Among the reasons enumerated in the strike notice is the "increasing proliferation of anti-union practices in the various Portuguese ports, are of extreme gravity in the port of Leixões, which still remains serious in the port The document also recalls that the AOPL-Association of Operators of the Port of Lisbon wrote a letter to the port workers of the capital to communicate that the agreement signed on June 28, "between the social partners of the port of Lisbon, SEAL and AOPL, would have been rendered ineffective because the SEAL would have ignored this agreement "when it declared the strike of today
. it is said that during these four weeks, the strike will be "almost symbolic" for many workers, because many of them have already exceeded the legal limits of the 250 annual hours. "
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