According to SITE (Union of Manufacturing Industries, Energy and Southern Activities), affiliated with CGTP, "in the plenary sessions held on December 18, 19 and 20, 2024, they analysed the company's responses to the 2025 Demands Booklet, namely the proposal salary adjustment for 2025, meal voucher adjustment, granting of unhealthy, dangerous, arduous and risk benefits, overtime values and negotiation of salary tables, professional careers and progressions, which created great discontent and discomfort among workers".
"The proposal presented by Algar for a 2% salary increase for all workers, the failure to update the meal voucher and the lack of concrete and objective proposals for other CR matters, left Algar workers with no choice but to decide that the path had to be to strike", explains the union in a press release.
The strike will run from 00:00 on the 20th to 24:00 on the 21st of January 2025 and for all overtime work from 00:00 on the 18th to 24:00 on the 21st of January 2025.
Their requests are perfectly reasonable, they have a very hard, and hazardous job. They are not even asking for an equivilant raise compared to current inflation, considering the money the government collects from taxes, they should be automatically increasing wages to match inflation every year, not saving money for more useless projects that do not improve the living conditions of residents like having roads that are completely destroyed, in desperate need of repairs, and repaving, or repairing the water, and sewer networks, that are losing 50-60 percent of our water.
By AB from Algarve on 18 Jan 2025, 20:00