In a note made public, the board of ENDE expressed total repudiation for the lack of rigor in the grounds for the strike, called for Monday, for not complying with the assumptions provided in the Law of Strike.
The union committee of ENDE workers sent in July a second set of demands to the employer, where they claim for better working conditions and wage increases, declaring a strike for August 9.
The administration of the public company announced that the demands contained in the second set of demands, "after compliance with the first set of demands, have been fully met with the exception of the proposed wage increase of around 100 percent".
According to ENDE, the reasons for rejecting the wage increase, whose current revenues of the company do not cover operating costs, were thoroughly analyzed in the joint meetings between management and the union.
"With financial statements that advised against its implementation, due to the negative impact on the economic and financial stability and sustainability of ENDE, as well as on the value chain of the electricity sector," reads the statement.
The chairman of ENDE's board, Helder Adao, said on Friday at a press conference that the company has the highest operating costs in the sector, noting that it has average revenues of about 6.5 billion kwanzas.
The RNT (National Transport Network), he explained, monthly "sends a bill of 10 billion kwanzas" and revenues have never reached that amount.
"The maximum we have collected was 8.5 billion kwanzas, but on average our collection is around 6.5 billion kwanzas," he justified.
For ENDE, the signatories of the strike declaration "insist on following a path of manifest folly and, perhaps, other purposes unacknowledged, with the aggravating factor of not complying with the assumptions of the Strike Law".
The board of ENDE "reserves the right to take all measures to affirm the illegality of the call to strike, also appealing to the common sense of the workers not to join the strike movement, under penalty of incurring in illegalities".
The public company, which has more than 4,500 workers and is under the supervision of the Ministry of Energy and Water, says it is open to dialogue.
