"Given the gravity of the content and the government's schedule, with meetings already scheduled for next month, the CGTP-IN considers it essential to move forward with informing workers and holding a day of struggle in September, signalling the immediate rejection of the labour package and the mobilization and action to defeat it," CGTP Secretary General Tiago Oliveira announced.
Speaking at a press conference in Porto, the leader of the trade union called for everyone to join together “in the fight to reject the labour package,” which he says “assaults workers’ rights” and “affronts the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.”
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What is the concern with the proposed legislation--the "bone of contention"--that compels this protest? It's difficult to assess the issue without more detail.
By Mark Rogan from Lisbon on 23 Aug 2025, 08:05
Portugal Government should work on their minimum wage, create a better labour law against housing and reduce housing cost. Extending the years of immigration isn't the problem of the country, if you don't want immigrants them don't grant visas. Do the needful by increasing the minimum wage.
By Hk from Beiras on 23 Aug 2025, 21:22
From what I understand, the PSD/CDS government has proposed legislation aimed at possibly de-regulating, or completely abandoning, some of the controls that unions have over leave time, wage structures, and the ease of initiating strikes. The call the legislation an attack on "workers' rights". It's typical class struggle type of verbiage. Basically, the unions seek to control production and wages outside of the market system and irrespective of the actual rights of property ownership. In the long run, this simply causes economic instability and worsens the purchase capacity of workers' wages by infusing large amounts of inflation into the system. Then the unions complain again and seek to force wage increases which starts the cycle all over again.
By Tony from USA on 23 Aug 2025, 22:08