According to the document sent to the Government, regional
secretariats, and port administrations, workers in ports on the mainland and
Madeira will be on strike “from 00:00 on December 22nd until 24:00 on December
23rd”, “from 00:00 on the 27th of December to 24:00 on the 29th” and “from
00:00 to 24:00 on the 2nd, 6th, 9th, 13th, 16th, 20th, 23rd, 27th and 30th of
January”.
“With regard to freight ships coming from or destined for
ports in the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores, the respective
operations will be ensured on the strike days indicated above in the period
between 08:00 and 17:00, and should not be initiated any operation that cannot
be completed or interrupted outside the defined period”, indicated the union.
In the Azores, “no operations or activities will be carried
out in the periods between 08:00 and 10:00 and 14:00 and 16:00, from Monday to
Friday, on the 22nd, 23rd, 27th. , December 28th and 29th” and on “January 2nd,
6th, 9th, 13th, 16th, 20th, 23rd, 27th, and 30th”.
Also in the Azores, in those days, “overtime work will not
be provided from Monday to Friday, including the period from 00:00 to 08:00”,
nor will “any service be provided to cruise ships”.
The union accuses the port administrations of “total lack of
availability” to discuss salary revision proposals for 2023, with SNTAP having
made “several requests for meetings” that went unanswered, “namely by the administrations
of Sines and Lisbon”.
The workers' representatives also point to the “subsistence
of serious situations” of violation of legislation and the collective
bargaining agreement in force, including a case that they classify as “labour
harassment” of a worker at the port of Sines.
The minimum services proposed by the union include transport
of medicines and hospital supplies, dangerous goods, loading and unloading of
live animals and perishable foodstuffs, essential interventions in the event of a fire, collision, open water, and the grounding of ships, oil tankers, or ships
with dangerous cargo on board, for security reasons, bunker services and
Portuguese humanitarian and military ships, as well as the movement of ships
necessary to avoid a disruption in the supply of military aircraft and, if
necessary, the supply of fuel.
Also included are the movement of ships to disembark the
sick, seriously injured, or dead, the maintenance of security conditions in the
port and intervention in case of incidents, and, in Porto Santo (Madeira), the
operations of fuel ships will be ensured.