STRIKE BRINGS PORTUGAL TO A HALT
Trade unions were revelling this week as they managed to keep record numbers of civil servants at home this week against the government’s alleged “arrogance and failure to negotiate better terms for civil servants”.
Schools, civil services and local councils shut, hospitals with skeleton staff, was the consequence of what trade unions have termed “one of the biggest strikes ever”, which was staged this Thursday and Friday.
The most apparent effect of the industrial action was large amounts of litter piling up in numerous cities and towns across the country, while primary schools were hardest hit by absenteeism of civil servants.