Health workers are starting a two-day strike this Monday, May 4, to demand better wages and decent working conditions, a protest that also includes a demonstration in Lisbon. The strike covers all health sector employees, regardless of their contract, career path, or union affiliation, and will run from midnight on May 4 to midnight on May 5, according to the notice from the National Union of Workers in Services and Public-Purpose Entities (STTS). With this stoppage, the union is demanding that the Government and employers restore points removed from workers under the evaluation system, urgently hire staff to end the 'use and abuse of overtime shifts and 14 to 16-hour continuous work schedules', and pay for unpaid and untaken hours. The union justifies the two-day strike, which is subject to minimum service requirements, by the need to protest against the Government's labour package, with a demonstration scheduled for Monday morning near Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon. Another national strike has already been called for May 12 by the Portuguese Nurses Union (SEP), covering the public, private, and social sectors to demand that the Government 'resolve various problems' to dignify the profession. It is a stoppage for the 'dignity of nurses and the dignification of nursing', highlighted SEP president José Carlos Martins, who stated that despite ongoing negotiations with the Government regarding the Collective Labour Agreement, it is 'important to resolve problems' that have been affecting these health professionals for several years.