This is the third consecutive day without train services.

“The participation is 100%. The strike may still have an effect tomorrow [Saturday], but it will be reduced. There will be no minimum services,” António Domingos, president of the National Union of Railway Drivers (SMAQ), told Lusa.

António Domingos also said that from Saturday until Wednesday (14), the drivers will go on strike during overtime work.

Several CP workers' unions went on strike, which stopped services on Wednesday and Thursday.

The strikes on Wednesday and Thursday were called by the Trade Union Association of Intermediate Railway Operations Managers (ASCEF), the Independent Trade Union Association of Commercial Career Railway Workers (ASSIFECO), the Federation of Transport and Communications Trade Unions (FECTRANS), the National Transport, Communications and Public Works Union (FENTCOP), the National Union of Railway Workers of the Movement and Related (SINAFE), the National Democratic Railway Union (SINDEFER), the Independent Union of Infrastructure and Related Railway Workers (SINFA), the National Independent Railway Workers Union (SINFB), the National Union of Transport and Industry Workers (SINTTI), the Independent Union of Railway Operators and Related (SIOFA), the National Union of Technical Staff (SNAQ), the National Union of Railway Sector Workers (SNTSF), Railway Transport Union (STF) and Metro and Railway Workers Union (STMEFE).

The Machinists' Union (SMAQ), the only union on strike today, joined this strike on Thursday.

The Commercial Itinerant Railway Review Union (SFRCI), ticket inspectors and ticket office workers, in turn, called a partial strike between 5:00 and 8:30 from Sunday to Wednesday (May 11 and 14). On Sunday and Wednesday, the strike only affects long-distance trains.

For this strike, 25% of minimum services were decreed.

This strike was called against the imposition of salary increases “that do not restore purchasing power”, for “collective negotiation of decent salary increases” and for “implementation of the salary scale restructuring agreement, under the terms in which it was negotiated and agreed”, according to the unions.