Labour Day will be marked on Wednesday to protest actions of the two largest unions in the country. Both have separate mobilizations planned: the CGTP will be nationally while the celebrations UGT will only take place in Lisbon, with a demonstration under the motto “Growth and Employment, Regaining Hope” and the maiden speech on 1. º May your new secretary general Carlos Silva.
The protest of the General Union of Workers (UGT) have conc entração marked the Marquis of Pombal, by 14h, followed later in the parade along Avenida da Liberdade towards the Restaurateurs . Carlos Silva summarizes those are the watchwords of the ACFTU, “No resignation resilience to the moment we are going through, it is very difficult for the Portuguese, and not the cuts that we want to impose.”
new secretary-general, elected only ten days ago at the XII Congress of the UGT, prefers not anticipate expectations of joining the protest. However, reinforces the “greater effort” that the union has done to mobilize strong, “taking into account the situation of the country”, should be “a journey of struggle and mobilization simultaneously.”
“I hope tomorrow [Wednesday] the mobilization of unions is something that has visibility and indicate a strong participation of workers and pensioners,” says Carlos Silva, who is a priority “defense of public administration workers and the State “, which may be on the verge of” suffer attacks on labor rights. ” “We have to be mobilized and vigilant,” he concludes.
Left in force in the protests class=”c1″> CGTP also will mark Labor Day with protest actions here under the motto “A better life change of life and government. ” The celebrations planned by the country’s largest trade union take place in more than 39 locations, with demonstrations from North to South.
Joaquim Dionysus, the Executive Committee of the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), expects a large membership to protest the 1. º de Maio, one day “is the high point of the struggle of the workers but not the last because the fight can not stop. “
“We have a great mobilization of the workers and the reasons for this mobilization are many more. Let’s celebrate and simultaneously express the feeling of revolt against the government’s actions,” he says. “The reasons are many more to react and mobilize workers until there are appropriate policies to create jobs that allow Portuguese live in dignity”, adds about the motivations behind the protest.
While in Portaction will take place on the CGTP Allies Avenue – where, from 15:30 there will be a rally followed by a parade and concert – in Lisbon a march is scheduled to depart from Martim Moniz, around 14h30 , towards the Alameda D. Afonso Henriques, where the celebration reaches its high point with the rally and the speech of the Secretary General, Carlos Armenian, but also part of the youth wing of the trade union.
Aboutspeech Armenian Carlos, Joaquim Dionysus ensures that “will not fail to make an alert to the current situation and sure enough, taking into account the present reality, not fail to point the way and new actions to fight if they are not changed the government’s actions. “
PCP, the Left Bloc (BE) and Green (ENP) will be represented in the celebrations of the CGTP, the Secretary-General communist, Jerónimo de Sousa, and a delegation headed by the ENP national leader Manuela Cunha in attendance parade in Lisbon. As leaders of the BE will divide the festivals: João Semedo will be in Lisbon and Porto in Catarina Martins.
PSAlready have representation in the first parade of the CGTP and UGT after, a delegation led by national secretary Miguel Laranjeiro and also includes Jamila Madeira, Nuno Alvaro Beauty and Sa.
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