With so much focus recently on the ‘energetic crisis’, today’s public sector strike will have taken a lot of people by surprise, and vastly irritate anyone who used fuel to deliver their children to schools that are not opening.
Reports say it is schools and hospitals/ health centres etc., that will be most affected by this strike which has a number of ‘reasons’: first and foremost the usual reason of low salaries/ poor conditions and insufficient staffing levels. Then there is the fury centring on the government’s proposed labour reform (which all syndicates, as well as left-wing parties, oppose).
FESINAP, the Federation of Independent Syndicates of Public Administration that has called this strike, is also registering its anger that the government has never once called it in to discuss plans for the labour reform.
With the time scale for this industrial action lasting until tomorrow, FESINAP has vowed that ‘new initiatives may follow’.
SIC adds that other public services (courts/ social services officer/ notaries and registrars/ AIMA etc.) may also “have constraints” – meaning they well may not open either.
Source material: SIC Notícias
