Suspended the strike of workers of Galp – Correio da Manhã

On the alleged interference of the government.

The strike of workers of Petrogal, scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, was suspended for alleged impediments to that ” Workers exercise fully the right to strike, “according to a union statement.

Workers Petrogal, Galp Energia group, marked the strike to claim the defense of collective bargaining, labor rights and health systems and reforms.

However, the Inter-Union Federation of Metallurgical, Chemical, Power, Pharmaceutical, Pulp, Paper, Print, Media, Energy and Mines (Fiequimetal) considers that government intervention interfere with the adhesion of workers to strike.

For the union structure, “such an order constitutes a flagrant violation of legal and constitutional provisions on the right of the exercise of the strike, as an affront, too, and once again the decisions of the courts that ruled on this matter. “

The Fiequimetal states that the convictions of the company’s management position,” relating to illegal discounts of the 2010 strikes and 2012, “the courts say that “the trade unions were not legally obliged to accept the ‘technical minimum’ that the defendant they intended to impose” therefore “to accept the position of the defendant, the performance mode of the right to strike would be determined by Will the company and not by the associations representing the workers. “

Before the dispatch of” technical minimum “that the trade union federation accused of creating an” illegal situation, which prevents workers from exercising fully the right to strike, “the Fiequimetal and SICOP (Union of Petroleum Industry and Trade) decided to suspend the strike.

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