Africa-Press – Cape verde. Fourteen workers on the penetration road in the Figueiral do Paul valley, with two months of wages in arrears, today started to demolish the road protection wall and threaten to continue if they do not receive what is due to them .
The workers stated that they had already “lost patience” waiting so long to receive the two months of wages in arrears.
Therefore, today, as a protest, they began to demolish the road protection walls, which they consider to be “unpaid” work by contractor Armando Cunha, responsible for the work at the time.
honor commitments
António Miguel Sousa, responsible for workers, claimed that the money in question is to honor his commitments to third parties.
“We don’t want to tear down the work we’ve done, because it’s not like us, but we’ve already reached the extreme. How is it possible to play with our survival. We already work, we just want our money ”she underlined.
This head of the family, pointed out that since then it has “survived” when one day of work appears and, in a month, only three or four days of work have appeared.
Government intervention
The worker asked the Government to intervene, “as soon as possible”, in order to receive the money in question.
These workers also stated that, if the situation is not resolved, they will demonstrate holding signs, on Friday, when, as they learned, members of the Government will be in Paul, to claim what is owed to them.
Armando Cunha denies having workers with wages in arrears
Contacted by Inforpress, the head of the contractor Armando Cunha, João Rêgo, said that the contractor does not have any workers in Santo Antão and that they are not part of the company. The same source was categorical and assured that “certainly” these workers do not have any contract with Armando Cunha, but with the subcontractors.
In turn, the representative of the subcontractors, Alex Construções and Brandão Neves Construções, Victor Neves, said that as a subcontractor they had a team working on the work.
“We had a contract with the contractor Armando Cunha, but they closed the work and never gave us any satisfaction again. However, they were committed to paying the two months wages and they never did,” she explained.
The same source also said that they had already spoken with the Mayor of São Paulo, António Aleixo Martins, and also with the Ministry of Infrastructure about the situation of these workers, since according to him the workers “cannot” be harmed. They said they would fix it, but “never said anything”.
Victor Neves, however, said that as a subcontractor, he is responsible for paying these workers, but until they receive the amount in question, they cannot pay these workers.
“Armando Cunha never paid us, so how are we going to be able to pay these workers?”, he questioned.
That road, just two kilometers long, is budgeted at 119 thousand contos, which means a cost of around 80 thousand contos per kilometer and should be executed in eight months.
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