Hospitals with minimal services and closed schools. The civil service is on strike this Friday, January 31st, and the Algarve is feeling «strong adhesion» to this strike.
Ao Sul Informação, Rosa Franco, from the Union of Workers in Public and Social Functions of the South and of the Autonomous Regions, added that, in terms of health, the three hospitals of the Hospital and University Center of the Algarve (CHUA) «are with minimal services».
«The external consultations of Faro and Portimão are closed. The operating theaters are in minimal service and some exams have been cancelled,” he added.
As usual, one of the most visible faces of the strike is the closing of schools. The Teixeira Gomes Group (Portimão) is closed, something that also happens at the Loulé and Albufeira Secondary Schools.
In Loulé, the EB 2,3 Padre João Cabanita is also without classes. Already in Faro, Secondary Tomás Cabreira is open with classes, but Pinheiro e Rosa has closed.
In some public offices, such as the Social Security of Faro, the services are working, but with constraints, found the Sul Informação.
A demonstration is scheduled for today, starting at 14:30 pm, with the departure of the Marquês de Pombal, in Lisbon. From the Algarve, "four buses go for this day of struggle", Rosa Franco told our newspaper.
“Let's take our revolt to the demonstration. We have people working for 20/25 years earning the minimum wage. There has to be an update of a remuneration table for the entire civil service, which has not happened since 2009», he concluded.
This is the first strike since the new António Costa government took office.
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