Wages squeezed by colossal profits Colossal profits and struggling workers, but the Government wants to further aggravate low wages and devalue professions and careers:

They say labour laws are outdated and need to be "more flexible", thinking of young people. They say it's not worth fighting. They raise prices; they deregulate working hours; they don't even want to hear about increasing wages and pensions; they never stop profiting from the war and from your work. They are the economic groups. For you, who live out of your work, there is no shortage of reasons to say enough is enough, to join the General Strike on June 3. It is necessary to defeat this Labour Package as a whole and each of its measures.

The life of the workers, the reality of the Country, and the ongoing attack on their rights through the Labour package: this is the theme of the parliamentary question we are putting to the Government today.  A process that takes place against a backdrop of growing hardship for the general public, who are facing rising prices that threaten to persist and worsen, increasing difficulties in accessing public services, particularly healthcare, and difficulties in accessing housing due to speculation encouraged by the Government. 

Portugal, as defined by the Constitution of the Republic, can only act as an uncompromising defender of international law, a builder of peace, and an advocate for the political resolution of conflicts. After two world wars and millions of deaths, it is easy to conclude that war must be stopped and that everything must be done to ensure it never returns. It is true that Portugal alone cannot impose peace. But it can and must, together with other countries, break away from the chorus of the madness of war and the arms race.