The PCP questioned the government this Friday about an alleged coercion attempt by the TAP administration to discourage crew members planning to strike between Thursday and Friday.
In a question to the Minister of Infrastructure, via parliament, the PCP wonders if Pedro Nuno Santos knows that “TAP’s management sent an e-mail message to the cabin crew, days before the strike declared for December 8 and 9, requesting that the workers who had been appointed to an emergency service on the days of the strike to inquire whether they would go on strike”.
The communist bank asks the executive whether deems it “plausible and acceptable” that the airline’s management is trying to “coerce the workers” and whether the attempt to coerce participation in the strike “challenges constitutions”.
The PCP also wants to know if the government is considering “intervening with the administration of TAP” to “prevent such practices”.
The communists condemn that the message from the TAP administration asked for a response from the crew “until 10 p.m.” on January 7, the eve of the start of the strike, “and if no response came, it would assume that the worker was on strike”.
“The right to strike is a constitutional right of employees and its exercise does not require any information from the employee to the company”supports the communist bank and warns that it is “urgent” to reverse the “attempts at intimidation and the extension of wage cuts and rights of TAP workers”.
Source: DN
