Thursday, November 20, 2008

According to company 'start war' between CTT and unions

The next week promises to be the turmoil in CTT. Yesterday the government announced the end of exemptions in working hours to 81 of the 103 leaders of the five unions that have not signed the new agreement of company (EA), demanding its return to workplaces, from December 1, advances the Public newspaper this Thursday.

This requirement is justified in applying the Labor Code, but the SNTCT (the largest union and one that was outside of Agreement) has a different reading of the matter. The belief is that the former AE 2006 is still in force (the company considered it extinct at the beginning of the month) and that trade unionists remain covered by it. So the union leaders "are actually in their jobs, but for meetings of clarification," said the secretary-general of SNTCT, Victor Narciso statements in the newspaper. The union has already delivered an injunction in the Labor Court to stop the expiry of the LA and is preparing to do so in an administrative court, next Monday.

Today has scheduled a meeting with Secretary of State for Communications and by the end of the week will again press the Ministry of Labor to "assume its responsibilities, enacting a compulsory arbitration of the dispute."

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