President steps into labour reform morass
President Seguro is stepping into the morass created by the government’s plans for labour reform. After months in which unions have been at loggerheads with political leaders, António José Seguro
Unions continue rejection of government’s labour law reform
The National Secretariat of the UGT (Socialist-backed General Workers’ Union) has once again rejected the government’s revised proposal to amend labour legislation. In a resolution approved unanimously yesterday, the UGT’s
Protest outside health ministry ‘demands answers for national health service’
Around 200 people, including health professionals, have been demonstrating outside the Ministry of Health today to mark World Health Day. Waving banners, and shouting long-used slogans about “health is a
Otis lift and escalator workers to stage 24-hour strike
Workers of Otis Portugal will be going on 24-hour strike on Thursday, in a national protest demanding salary increases and improved conditions. According to information from the syndicates Fiequimental/ CGTP-IN,
Draft labour law: still no agreement, following four-hour meeting
The dour expressions on the faces of those emerging from four hours of ‘negotiations’ at the Ministry of Labour today said it all: there is still no agreement on the
Public sector strike affects schools and hospitals
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
Thousands demonstrate against government’s labour reform
Thousands of people demonstrated in Lisbon today against the government’s labour package – which the general secretary of CGTP (the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers) has long described as negative
Labour reform ‘impasse’: minister will take proposed changes to parliament regardless
Grinding on now for the best part of six months, ‘negotiations’ over the government proposed labour reforms are still deadlocked. Employers say the changes “don’t warrant this conflict”; unions have
Unions turn government’s ‘labour reform’ on its head
In the midst of catastrophe, the only union ‘dialoguing with the government’ over the latter’s plan for labour reform has delivered a ‘counter proposal’ which turns the PSD/CDS-PP coalition’s blueprint
CGTP union calls mass Lisbon, Porto protests against government’s labour reform
Just as the favourite for the post of Portugal’s next president says he will not be approving the government’s proposed revision of labour legislation ‘unless there is agreement with social