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The Super Bock Bebidas workers’ strike began this Thursday with a demonstration in front of the company’s headquarters in Leça do Balio, Matosinhos.
The protest began a few minutes after eight o’clock and was attended by the general secretary of the CGTP, Isabel Camarinha. The decision to go ahead with the strike was already taken on December 2, during a workers’ plenary session that lasted four hours at that time.
At that meeting, the workers decided “to condemn the shameful attitude of the company by deciding not to comply with the integration agreements of workers with precarious ties assumed with their representatives in the Ministry of Labor.” This is due to the fact that, explained the Workers’ Commission to the JN, the company fired 16 employees who, it adds, had to join the company’s workforce following an agreement between the Administration and the Union of Agricultural and Industrial Workers of Food, Beverages and Food. Tobacco from Portugal.
Impact of the covid-19 crisis
In turn, the Super Bock Group Management had already confirmed to JN that the change in circumstances caused by the impact of the pandemic crisis on the group’s business is such that it prevents compliance with the agreement (referred to above), signed in January ” in a pre-pandemic context. “
The same source added that the “structural dimension of the crisis” has even led to a plan of “internal restructuring, which is practically completed, having passed without setbacks.”
The workers also speak of “arrogant and persecutory actions”, which will have been “already identified”, demanding their termination, and the “shudder of the meaning of management actions related to human relations and the guarantee of the fulfillment of rights”.
The Super Bock workers’ strike, which lasts for 24 hours, paralyzed the company’s filling lines, a union source said. “The last information that reached me, about an hour ago [ao início da tarde desta quinta-feira], are that the filling lines are all stopped, “said the director of the Union of Workers of Agriculture and Industries of Food, Beverages and Tobacco of Portugal (Sintab) José Eduardo Andrade, in statements to Lusa.
According to the union leader, “you can never get 100% of the workers, but [os que compareceram] in the industrial area they were not enough to guarantee its operation and at least the filling lines were stopped ”.
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