Portugal General Strike: What You Need to Know
The CGTP says the reform would weaken workers’ rights and collective bargaining as transport, schools, hospitals and public services prepare for disruption.
- On Wednesday, June 3, Portuguese workers will launch a nationwide general strike to oppose the government's labor reform package, known as Trabalho XXI, expected to cause major disruption.
- The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers organized the walkout because proposed legislation aims to bring more than 100 changes to the Labour Code, which unions argue undermines collective bargaining.
- Sectors including Transport, Health, and local government will join the action, with unions issuing notices for complete stoppages throughout the day affecting public services.
- Lisbon Metro will suspend service from 23:00 on June 2 through June 3, while Comboios de Portugal confirmed disruptions and TAP announced only 79 flights will operate.
- Following a similar mobilization in December 2025, The PCP leader Raimundo stated the government thought workers would accept the package as normal, but workers will again reject it.
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Algemeen Dagblad
Airlines KLM and Transavia cancelled several flights to Portuguese destinations on Wednesday due to a strike in the country. Flights were cancelled at Schiphol as well as at the airports in Eindhoven and Rotterdam.
Portuguese workers gear up for second general strike in six months
LISBON—This Wednesday, on June 3, Portuguese workers will once again walk off the job in a massive general strike in an attempt to deliver a second blow to a right-wing government that refuses to implement workers’ demands. The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP-IN) called a nationwide general strike to defeat the government’s labor package—the same one that workers buried with their December 2025 general strike. December’s genera…
Momentum grows for June 3 general strike to stop anti-worker labor law package in Portugal
Porto, Portugal – Business elites and conservative political leaders are powerless to stop the massive working class wave about to hit them as momentum builds toward a nationwide general strike June 3. Portugal’s largest union federation, the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), called a general strike to demand that Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and the conservative parties in the Assembly of the Republic abandon the “Labor Pack…
Portugal braces for nationwide general strike
The ANA points to the cancellation of more than half of the flights at Lisbon airport and about 40% at the other airports in the country, due to the general strike against the work package.
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