I have been asked several times, over the last few day, about the likelihood of airport strikes going ahead. (Good) news just in, although "Unions vow 'other forms of struggle already being considered'”. Portugal Resident article: "Good news for once for aircraft passengers – a three-month ‘strike’ called by airport handlers has been cancelled (indignantly) because the minimum services decreed would have obliged them to perform 80% of their normal duties. Claiming that 'our ministers currently wish to restrict' the 'constitutional right of workers' to protest (in such a fashion that causes havoc to the lives of innocents), unions SIMA and STA have vowed that 'other forms of struggle are already being considered'. For employers SPdH/Menzies this is nothing short of a coup. The unions had been threatening to snarl up the works 'for various periods between September and January', including the holiday weekends taking in Christmas and New Year." More