Portugal. Civil service unions reiterate demand for 4% pay rise
“We shall today hand in the Common Demand Proposal for 2019, which was approved at a summit of unions on 22 June,” Ana Avoila said at an impromptu news conference in front of the Ministry of Finance building in Lisbon. “It is a proposal that, this year, is being handed in earlier.”
Among the demands in the document is one for a 4% increase in salaries and pensions.
“We are still awaiting the government’s counterproposal to our demands,” she said, adding that “it makes sense for the government to give a response and resolve the problems and … not say that they don’t have time.”
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