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Protesters against the labour package are agitated near Parliament. They have already thrown glass bottles and burned pieces of cloth at the steps of the Assembly of the Republic.
Paulo Raimundo, the General Secretary of the PCP, stated this Thursday morning that the “capacity for unity among workers” in this general strike should demonstrate to the Government the discontent regarding the proposed labour package, which he describes as “unqualifiable.”
The general strike called by CGTP and UGT against the draft labour reform threatens to halt the country this Thursday, December 11. However, the following day, Friday, December 12, will also be affected as several independent public sector unions have scheduled a second day of stoppage, which could ...
“The government has proposed a reform that was not in its programme,” said Livre. “The government committed in its programme to review labour legislation to improve incomes,” countered the PSD.
