Workers EMEF interrupt train line – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

About two hundred workers EMEF, the company Rail Equipment Maintenance, interrupted on Tuesday for half an hour a railway line next to the Junction. The protest against the privatization of the company occurred after a plenary as discovered by Lusa on site. About 200 workers EMEF, the company Rail Equipment Maintenance, interrupted on Tuesday for half an hour a railway line next to the Junction.

                     

                         The cut occurred at about 11:30 am and retained the passage of an alpha-pendulum train originated in Porto. Shortly after noon, the workers left the line, letting the train and began to demobilize.

CP Fountain confirmed to Lusa that an alpha-tilting train was held up next to the Junction station, “because the line was busy.” About a dozen PSP officers were called to the scene, but ended up not intervene.

The national plenary of EMEF, which was attended by the Secretary-General of the CGTP, Armenian Carlos, passed a motion requiring the cancellation of the privatization of EMEF processes and CP Carga, the merger of REFER with Estradas de Portugal and the grant of lucrative lines of CP.

“We do not accept that this company is delivered in hand kissed the private sector. This is eroding public property. It is a crime against public property, a crime against the country’s economy and a crime against the social and labor rights of workers. [Privatization] has to be fought, “he said the secretary general of the CGTP.

Armenian Carlos told Lusa that the meeting to be held on Wednesday with the administration of EMEF shows “opening to talk.”

Yet for the leader of the trade union federation “does not just talk,” is fundamental to stop the delivery of management EMEF the private, not only to avoid the reduction of jobs and casualization but also to ensure that “the State is not without a strategic company to do the maintenance of railway rolling stock and also to put it to build. “

Armenian Carlos stated that” shortly “, you need to do to replace the carriages and the CP the subway and said, “this can and should be done by a public company because capital gains that result here instead of going into the pockets of major shareholders of private companies will enhance the state budget.”