CENA-STE's 24-hour notice covers the whole sector so staff can join the CGTP demonstration. At EGEAC, the union says the board has refused to meet since May.
The Integrar para a Construção programme pays a grant for four months of training and a work placement in trades from plumbing to plasterboard. Its second intake, planned for September, still has no date.
The men, aged 26 and 28, were buried five to six metres down on Monday afternoon. The second body was found late at night, and the labour inspectorate is now investigating how the trench gave way.
On a visit to Luanda, labour secretary of state Adriano Moreira said Portugal needs workers, pointed to a new labour attaché now in post in Luanda and tied the formal route to social protection from the first day.
The SNQTB union has called a strike for 30 November and protests from 9 October, starting at novobanco and Millennium bcp, after the banks held their 2026 pay offer at 2 percent with inflation at 3.3 percent.
A study of 750 journalists by the Labpats workplace-health laboratory finds stagnant pay, long shifts and weak management behind the exhaustion. Two thirds would still choose the profession again.
The regional floor goes from 980 euros to 1,050 euros next year, and the union says hundreds of staff will land on it whatever their seniority. It wants 70 euros added up to level 23 of the Madeira table.
