Thousands protest in two cities in Portugal to demand higher wages and pensions

euronews (in English)

Portugal is one of Western Europe's poorest countries with official data showing that more than half of all workers in country earn less than €1,000 a month.

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00:00Thousands of people have protested in two cities in Portugal to demand higher wages

00:07and pensions.

00:08The protests were called by the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers, the country's largest

00:13federation of trade unions.

00:16The CGTP said that day-to-day difficulties faced by workers stem from political decisions

00:21and highlighted unaffordable housing and limited access to health care as key concerns.

00:27I have a higher education and I thought it would be something different, that they would

00:31offer us more conditions, more opportunities and unfortunately that was not the case.

00:36And here we are to try to fight for something more and for something less.

00:40Currently workers in Portugal get a minimum wage of 820 euros a month.

00:46The government has proposed raising the minimum wage by 50 euros a year until 2028, increasing

00:52it to over 1,000 euros.

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