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Carris's Tourism Arm Walks Out for Twelve Hours on 2 and 9 May — STRUP Calls Two Saturday Strikes at Carristur Over Pay, the 35-Hour Week and a Stalled Acordo de Empresa, With Hop-on Hop-off Buses, Historic Trams and Tagus Cruises Exposed

STRUP/Fectrans has filed twelve-hour strike notices at Carristur — Carris's wholly owned tourism arm — for Saturday 2 May and Saturday 9 May, 07:30-19:30. Hop-on hop-off buses, historic-tram rentals and Tagus cruises are exposed; regular Carris city services are not covered.

30 April 2026

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UGT Unanimously Chumba the Trabalho XXI Overhaul — Palma Ramalho Pegs 7 May as Concertação's Last Day, Then the Diploma Heads Straight to Parlamento

UGT's Secretariado Nacional voted unanimously on 23 April to reject the Government's final labour reform draft. Minister Palma Ramalho gave UGT 15 days. The 7 May CPCS meeting is now the deadline before the package goes to Parliament without a concertation agreement.

24 April 2026

Carris's Tourism Arm Walks Out for Twelve Hours on 2 and 9 May — STRUP Calls Two Saturday Strikes at Carristur Over Pay, the 35-Hour Week and a Stalled Acordo de Empresa, With Hop-on Hop-off Buses, Historic Trams and Tagus Cruises Exposed

INE's March Unemployment Read Holds at 5.8% as the Labour Underutilisation Rate Slips to 9.8% — Employed Population Reaches 5.07 Million, the Highest March Reading in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey Series

Gustavo Paulo Duarte Elected to Lead the CCP for the 2026-2029 Term — Sixteen-Year Vieira Lopes Era Closes at the Confederation's Fiftieth-Anniversary General Assembly

Brussels Opens an Infringement Case Over Salary-Scale Discrimination Against Fixed-Term Public-Sector Workers — Portugal Has Two Months to Realign the Lei Geral do Trabalho em Funções Públicas With Directive 1999/70/EC

TVDE Drivers and Operators March on Lisbon Wednesday — A Thousand-Strong Convoy from Campo Pequeno to Uber and Bolt Headquarters as Sector Demands Tariff Hike, Fuel Support and Rejection of Taxis Inside the Régime

SITESE Calls a 24-Hour Walkout at APED Member Companies for May 1 — UGT-Affiliated Distribution Union Targets 220 Retailers Including the Sixty Biggest Food Chains, Pre-Strike Notice Already Lodged

UGT Unanimously Chumba the Trabalho XXI Overhaul — Palma Ramalho Pegs 7 May as Concertação's Last Day, Then the Diploma Heads Straight to Parlamento