Teachers strike: still no joy
As expected, proposals presented yesterday by the ministry of education have failed to signal positive results in the ongoing teachers’ strikes. Further meetings are scheduled tomorrow (Friday) and next Thursday.
Teachers strike latest: Ministry wants to wrap up negotiations this week
Government delivers long-awaited proposal, saying it wants decision by Friday Teachers’ unions and the Ministry of Education resume negotiations today – over a new model for recruiting and placing teachers
Algarve nurses threaten further strikes
Nurses working in the Algarve’s state-run hospitals have vowed to organise further strikes against the “inaction” regarding career progression. The “indecisiveness and inoperativeness” of the Algarve University Hospital Board (CHUA)
Court officials to start strike despite question over legality
Portugal’s Union of Judicial Officers (SJF) has pledged to press ahead with a strike planned to start tomorrow, on the same basis as it was called – rejecting allegations of
S.T.O.P extends schools strike to March 10
Even before negotiations have resumed (they are due to take place tomorrow and again on Friday), S.T.O.P (the syndicate of all education professionals) has extended its ‘indefinite strike’ notice to
One in five trains cancelled because of strike
Portugal’s CP railways cancelled 58 trains out of a total of 252 scheduled between 00:00 and 08:00 this morning due to strike, which started on the 8th of this month
Over 150,000 fill Lisbon with teachers’ implacable demands
“It is practically impossible to say there is no money”, admit critics Just as teachers syndicates vowed, yesterday’s demonstration in Lisbon was indeed the largest ever: over 150,000 people turned
President tells striking teachers: negotiations “will go well”; patience needed
Patience (in Portuguese paciência) is summoned for all kinds of situations in daily life, and today President Marcelo has said it is needed for ongoing negotiations between the government and
Health minister believes possible to avoid doctors’ strike in March
Portugal’s health minister Manuel Pizarro has said today that he believes it is possible to find “sufficient points of consensus” in negotiations with the national federation of doctors (FNAM) to
PSD Algarve calls for solution to education crisis
Cristóvão Norte, president of PSD Algarve, has called for an end to the ongoing teachers’ strike which is gravely affecting the school year. “This situation cannot continue eternally,” Norte says,