Frente Comum expects "large turnout" in Friday's day of struggle
The Common Front of Public Administration Trade Unions expects a "large turnout" at the strike scheduled for Friday as part of the national day of struggle, and thousands of people from all over the country to participate in the demonstration in Lisbon.
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Health, education and central services, namely courts, Social Security and tax offices should be the sectors most affected and with the highest adherence to this public administration strike, as anticipated by the coordinator of Frente Comum, Sebastião Santana, in statements to Lusa.
This strike day will allow public servants to join the rally that will be heading to the Ministry of Finance, in Lisbon, with Frente Comum pointing to the participation of thousands of people because, as Sebastião Santana stressed, the reasons to strike and protest have increased with the arrival of the new Government and the content of its program.
"On the day we learned that the supervision of public administration would be in the Ministry of Finance, we handed in our list of demands and so far we have not had any response", said the union leader, stating that one of the priorities of this list is an interim increase in salaries of at least 15%, with a minimum of 150 euros per worker, "because workers cannot remain without any increase until 2025".
Sebastião Santana also stated that, if at the end of October, when the State Budget proposal for 2024 (OE2024) was approved, there were reasons for workers to strike, these reasons are now even greater because "the problems have only worsened".
In addition to the salary increases, which include the increase of the State minimum wage to 1,000 in 2024, Frente Comum is also demanding changes in careers and in the performance evaluation system, as well as measures to strengthen public services.
For Sebastião Santana, "in public services, what is expected is the opening of doors to the private sector" in sectors such as health and Social Security, that is, an "absolute disfigurement of public administration" that workers cannot accept.
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