According to ECO's calculations based on data from the Directorate-General for Employment and Labor Relations (DGERT), last year there was a decrease of almost 27% in the number of strikes reported. This is explained, at least in part, by the sectoral agreements that the Government has been closing.

The annual summary has not yet been published by DGERT, but the data for December is already available, which allows us to understand how strikes have evolved over the last year. In the last month of 2024, 230 strikes were reported, bringing the annual total to 1,099.

In 2023, almost 1,500 strike notices had been filed, the highest figure since the troika times, as ECO wrote. In comparison with the figures already available for 2024, it is possible to calculate that 396 fewer advance notices of stoppages were filed last year, equivalent to a decrease of 26.49%.

This decrease in relation to 2023 was already expected, given the monthly data that had been known, with political scientists heard by ECO pointing out three reasons for this trajectory: the elections, the consequent change of Government and the sectoral agreements that Luís Montenegro's Executive was closing.