PORTUGAL - Postal workers protest outside parliament

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Scores of postal workers marched on Monday morning through Lisbon in small groups in an unauthorised march ending in a rally outside parliament.

The postal workers complained of schedule changes that union representatives claim will cost them up to €250 per month. Union spokesman António Duarte told Lusa that the workers are also protesting that some mail services have been outsourced by Portugal’s state-owned CTT to private companies. Permits for the demonstration were denied by Lisbon authorities. Communist MP Bruno Dias told Lusa such a decision is “amazing” at a time when “what the country needs is workers to organise and stand up for the national interest”.