Labor Day celebrated in Faro with demonstration

The Union of Unions of the Algarve – USAL/ CGTP- IN “giving expression to the fair demands of workers, retirees and pensioners, calls on all workers to the great day of struggle on May 1st – International Workers’ Day.”
The demonstration leaves the Municipal Market of Faro, at 10 am, ending on the lawn, next to the Municipal Theater, with a union intervention and a cultural moment led by Volta e Meia.

According to the USAL/CGTP statement, the country “continues to be marked by profound injustice in the distribution of wealth”, because while “employers use labor legislation to increase exploitation, boycott collective bargaining and attack rights”, low wages and pensions, “which they want to perpetuate, mean that thousands of workers and pensioners do not have the minimum living conditions to which they are entitled.”

For this union organization, “a general and significant increase in wages is urgent; the valorization of careers and professions; the increase in the national minimum wage to €1000, during the year 2024; the repeal of harsh labor legislation standards and the end of the expiry of collective bargaining; the reduction of working hours to 35 hours, without loss of pay; the regulation of working hours, including continuous work and shift work; the fight against precariousness; the increase in retirement pensions; investment in public services and guaranteeing the right to housing.”

“On the 50th anniversary of April and on May 1st – International Workers’ Day – the rights and values ​​of April are affirmed, for a Portugal with a future that guarantees a new direction for the country, based on the valorization of work and workers and in the application of the rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic”, concludes USAL/CGTP-IN.