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Fuel delivery strike over

petrolpumpEven with the end of the drivers' strike officially at a negotiated end, the country’s fuel stations will take some time again to be fully operational.

Some stations won’t get supplies until the Tuesday after Easter by which time the effects of the transport strike will have worked through the distribution system.

The Drivers’ union says the problem would be solved in 48 hours, by the end of Sunday but this is the case for the majority of filling stations.

Storage tanks at several filling stations were filled up yesterday afternoon, Thursday, after an agreement was announced.

To speed up the process, the union said that many of its driver will be working over the holiday weekend confirms.

APETRO, which represents the oil companies, said that the major problem, will be over by the end of Friday but warned that an full service should be back on by the end of Monday.

The fuel retailers association, ANAREC, estimates that 80% of the 3,000 outlets in the country ran out of supplies, mainly due to people panic buying.

The National Union of Dangerous Goods Drivers and ANTRAM reached agreement on Thursday night, after a 10-hour meeting with the Government.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Minister of Planning, Pedro Nuno Santos, announced the end of the strike and spoke of "social peace" until the pay agreement is finalised by the year end

The first meeting will take place on 29 April and will cover salary scales, the introduction of danger money, special training, life insurance and specific medical examinations.

Road transport companies warn that buses will only be back on full schedule only when the fuel network again is fully operational.

The three day strike nearly ensured made the country grind to a halt over a holiday long weekend with panic buying the major cause of fuel shortages.

 

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0 #4 Boris H 2019-04-25 14:09
Responding to A jones comment,
I don't understand what A jones is referring to by using the words Graeco Roman, so Just to be CLEAR ...
Graeco Roman, better known as the
"Classical Civilisation".
+3 #3 Darcy 2019-04-20 23:12
A jones, What a pity the Norman-brito's, can't see the the error of their way, swollow their pride and just apologise to the EU for all of the bother they have caused and remain....
-2 #2 John Sturridge 2019-04-20 17:21
Does anyone in Portugal count the TOTAL cost of these strikes / greves to this countries GDP? On PT TV last night some economist was telling us that in 2018 Portugal suffered over 450 strikes. Almost all national, obviously many overlapping and several a day. Some presumably in the same sector and staggered over time. Why therefore does management or the Portuguese Government wait until the strike to give in? Why not bargain and negotiate first and attempt to meet in the middle? Or are the unions just management stooges put in place by the owners to pretend that Portugal has worker representatives like it also claims Regulators and corruption investigators?
-10 #1 A.Jones 2019-04-20 11:49
Another Greco-Roman example in the news wherein the elites also do not listen until forced to is France so yellow vests / gilets jaunes have been out yet again and and continuing to protest for months in a row. For Micron to then bundle in an anti-yellow vest link and Brexit to the fire at Notre Dame was off the mark. In 1914 the Germans would have been in Paris by Christmas, as they had done 50 years before, without the English speaking countries coming to France's aid. As we did again in 1939 and consequently had several dozen cathedrals, abbeys and churches - many of a similar age - destroyed or damaged by German bombing. Had France not bottled out in 1940 the Germans would have bombed Notre Dame too to break the morale of the citizens but failed with us British. So forthcoming repairs would be to more recent repairs.
But then, as we all know, France's morale was already broken; yet they act tough - like the other Greco-Romans - against us British now!

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