The partial strikes on Wednesday and Friday at the Lisbon Metropolitan were dismissed by the unions, who believe that the definition of minimum services calls into question the safety of users and workers. However, there is a strike at CP – Trains of Portugal for the end of the week.
© Shutterstock
27/10/2026
by
Beatriz Vasconcelos, Lusa
As partial strikes on Wednesday and Friday at the Lisbon Metropolitan were disconcentrated the unions, which consider that the definition of minimum services calls into question the safety of users and workers. But, continues a strike in CP – Trains of Portugal for the end of the week.
Lisbon Metro: Unions devoked partial strikes
The partial strikes of Wednesday and Friday at the Lisbon Metropolitan were disconcentrated, after the minimum services decreed by the Arbitral Court, as the trade unions consider that the decision undermines the safety of users and workers.
“ We have therefore sent a communication to the workers and to the Economic and Social Council itself, where we inform them that the strikes of 28 and 30 days will be dismissed”, said trade union leader Sara Gligó to Lusa.
According to the leader of the Federation of Transport and Communications Unions (Fectrans) and the STRUP – Union of Road and Urban Transport Workers of Portugal, “the Arbitral Court decided to set minimum services, to circulate compositions, and in the manner in which the company actually requested”.
Attention! The strike at CP continues
The reviewers, ticket workers and CP heads will meet on October 30 a day of strike for better working conditions, there are planned disturbances in train traffic.
“ For the sake of a strike convened by the SFRCI trade union [Railway Union of the Itinerant Commercial Review], for october 30 [one friday], there are disturbances in the circulation of trains, with possible impacts also on the day before and after“, CP-Comboios de Portugal reported in a statement published on its website.
Contacted by the agency Lusa, Luís Bravo do SFRCI, said that the 24-hour strike aims at valuing the work and “dignity of their living conditions”, aggravated by the increase in fuels, housing, essential food and the rise in gas and electricity prices.
According to the Union, “this reality has caused a continuous loss of purchasing power and a deterioration of the living conditions of the railway families, making insufficient the wage valuations achieved so far to compensate for the widespread increase in the burden borne by the workers”.
“ The increase in fuel is particularly serious for these workers because of working hours and because there is no transport at certain times. Workers have to move in their own cars. In some places they also have to pay parking ", told Lusa Luís Bravo.
In view of this reality, the Union calls for “the CP and the Government to take concrete and effective measures to recover lost purchasing power, to value railway workers and to ensure decent living conditions for those who ensure daily the functioning of a public service essential to the country”.
The workers claim the valuation of the travel/transport grant still during the year 2026, with retroactive effects to July, in order to compensate for the extraordinary increase in mobility costs.