“It’s sad, it’s not easy, but I also have nothing left to lose. I've already worked for 44 years. There are colleagues of mine who are in a much worse situation”, Alzira Cupertino told Lusa today, leaving the meeting that took place inside the factory, having reported that the insolvency manager assured the workers of the payment of their respective compensation.

An inventory will be made “of all existing material, then there are the characteristic bureaucracies and the sale of materials. In total until we receive it, the manager says it could take eight months to a year,” said Alzira, a resident of Amoreira (Abrantes), with the resignation letter in one hand and uncertainty about the future in the other.

The company that owns the Tupperware factory in Montalvo, Constância, was declared insolvent on Monday by the Lisbon District Court, an outcome that has left 200 people unemployed today, with workers reporting to Lusa a feeling of resignation in the face of an “expected outcome” but where there remained a faint hope of continuity of the factory unit.