End of a 25-year term. Manuel Carvalho da Silva put an end to his job as CGTP general secretary during the union’s 12th Congress on January 28-29, concerned by the age limit (62) imposed by the CGTP’s 11th Congress to allow for the renewal of the management. Manuel Carvalho da Silva, a union member for 35 years, initially an electrician, is a Professor in Industrial Sociology. Discreet and private, adept of dialogue and the modernization of union representation, the leader was able to impose the CGTP for social dialogue in spite of his official status as the “organ of the Portuguese Communist Party” (PCP). Passionately opposed to international help which is plunging Portugal into austerity (three-year plan by the IMF and the EU in return for €78 billion), da Silva terminated dialogue with the social partners.
y 28-29, concerned by the age limit (62) imposed by the CGTP’s 11th Congress to allow for the renewal of the management. Manuel Carvalho da Silva, a union member for 35 years, initially an electrician, is a Professor in Industrial Sociology. Discreet and private, adept of dialogue and the modernization of union representation, the leader was able to impose the CGTP for social dialogue in spite of his official status as the “organ of the Portuguese Communist Party” (PCP). Passionately opposed
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