The strikers demanding pay rises include: employees offices, railways, prisonsas well as bets cleansing city. It is scheduled to take place at airports across the country on Tuesday Portugal strike of ground handling workers.
The greatest chaos occurs in connection with the strike cleaning companies in the capital country, Lisbon.
Mountains of garbage lie on many city streets, including places popular among tourists.
Portugal: Protests also next week
The organizers of the strike of city sanitation workers announced that they would protest it will last at least until Thursday. The capital of Portugal also in previous years struggled with accumulated garbage, especially during the holiday season.
This year it was decided to exhibit additional 57 waste containersto mitigate the effects of the strike.
Even before the holidays, the Lisbon authorities estimated that it would only last until the New Year one third employees will report to work on garbage collection.
Trade unionists reported that they took part in the first phase of the strike 80 percent employees.