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Luanda Railroad workers with wage arrears

Workers of the Luanda Railroad (CFL) are behind in their March salaries, a situation that is due to the company's already weak financial situation, aggravated by covid-19, the company's spokesman told the Lusa agency this Friday.

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Augusto Osório confirmed information about the delay in the March salary, claimed by the approximately one thousand CFL workers, who are concerned about the confinement situation due to the new coronavirus, which has already caused two deaths out of a total of eight positive cases in the country.

"So far we have not paid salaries because we have problems of liquidity, of money, the trains have suspended their activity due to the new coronavirus", he explained.

According to Augusto Osório, this situation "is nothing new" for the workers, who "know the difficulty the company has faced in recent times".

"And it's not the first time it's happened, I wanted to make it very clear, it's happened more often", he said.

For one of the workers, who asked for anonymity, "the most serious thing is that they say nothing" to justify the situation.

"At least one communiqué couldn't be issued to say why this delay happened", he complained.

The CFL spokesman said that the situation of confinement of people has made communication difficult, reassuring workers that the situation will be resolved in the coming days.

"As people are not showing up at the duty station, the flow of information has been complicated, as when they showed up at the duty station, it was easier to pass the information, at this time the flow of information is somewhat more complicated," he stressed.

According to the source, it is situations such as that of CFL workers, who are influencing compliance with the state of emergency decreed in the country, to social confinement, "because people need to find ways to survive.

For the source we have been quoting, the delay in the payment of wages has to do with "the current board of directors", exemplifying that the situation they face is not with the other workers of the Benguela Railway or the Moçâmedes Railway.

Augusto Osório contradicts the workers' thesis emphasizing that the pandemic of the new coronavirus has "greatly influenced the already weak financial situation of the company".

"We stopped carrying a lot of passengers as we did, now we have minimum services, so the revenue collection has decreased drastically", he said.

The CFL spokesman stressed that ways are being found to solve the problem, "and of course the top priority is to pay the salaries that are missing from last month".

Last week the company announced measures to significantly reduce train movements and the passenger limit due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The previous 17 daily frequencies have been reduced to eight, and the number of people on board has risen in the 3rd class cars from 100 passengers to a maximum of 50, and 2nd class cars from 70 to 48.

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