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Labor Day is a strike day for commercial workers. They want changes in salaries, careers, rhythms and schedules.
You trade workers are in today strike for better salaries and the enhancement of careers, denouncing intense rhythms and unregulated schedules.
CESP – Trade, Office and Services Workers Union of Portugal (CGTP) said, in a statement, that these workers have “intense work rhythms and unregulated schedules”operating until 18 hours a day, seven days a weekincluding holidays.
For the union, the businesses must close on all national holidays, as well as to Sunday, and from 22:00.
Workers also demand a reduction in working hours for 35 hours weekly.
“You salary It is careers of commercial workers cannot continue to lose purchasing power — we demand an end to professional stagnation, and the salary update of collective employment contracts without loss of rights”, he stressed.
The Services Sector Workers’ Union (Sitese), which belongs to UGT, also called a strike for today, which includes workers in the commerce, offices and servicesnamely companies affiliated with the Portuguese Association of Distribution Companies (APED).
The sector demands respect for International Workers’ Day and contests the precariousness of relationships and schedules.
Workers also demand wage increases and respect for collective bargaining.
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