Lisbon, Dec. 4, 2025 (Lusa) - ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal and the Aviation and Airport Workers' Union (Sitava) have agreed to ensure the "strictly necessary means" for the satisfaction of the minimum services set for activity during the general strike on 11 December.
At a meeting held on Wednesday at the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, the minutes of which were released today by the Directorate-General for Employment and Labour Relations (DGERT), the parties agreed, at ANA's request, to "postpone the negotiation of the effective means to a later date, after the full minimum services defined for this strike are known".
"ANA highlighted the need to reach agreement on the principle of combining the various services necessary to provide the minimum services, already defined or to be defined," the minutes read.
In this regard, the company asked Sitava "to send the agreements already reached by this union", postponing the negotiation of effective means.
At the meeting, ANA said it was not currently "in a position to put forward any concrete proposal" for minimum services, as it has no "knowledge of what minimum services have been decreed for the Autonomous Region of the Azores and, on the part of the airlines, the best information it has is that, overall and on average, around 30% of the flights scheduled for that day have been defined".
"Given this information and the fact that other unions with many members have not formally joined this strike, ANA can't come up with concrete figures," the document states.
Sitava explained that, throughout the meetings that were held and in the agreements it entered into, it has been "careful to maintain consistency and continuity in defining minimum services for airport activity."
The CGTP and UGT called a general strike for 11 December in response to the government's proposed labour law reforms. This is the first strike to bring the two trade union confederations together since June 2013, when Portugal was under the “troika” intervention.
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