{"id":682325,"date":"2010-03-04T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ninety-percent-of-capital-health-workers-skip-to-protest-austerity-budget-in-portugal-2010-3"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:10:46","slug":"90-of-public-health-workers-skip-work-to-protest-budget-cuts-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682325","title":{"rendered":"90% Of Public Health Workers Skip Work To Protest Budget Cuts In Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b740fdb0000000000a2ba61\/portugal.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Portugal\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Government employees <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100304-704247.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLEHeadlinesEurope\">took to the streets of Lisbon today<\/a> to protest the Portuguese government&#8217;s cuts in public sector wages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmjornal.xl.pt\/Noticia.aspx?channelid=00000021-0000-0000-0000-000000000021&amp;contentid=6917C04F-A8C6-4D81-853A-9B1C9707D029&amp;h=1\">According to a Correio da Manha<\/a> translation, ninety percent of public health workers participated in the protest.<\/p>\n<p>The government is attempting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/economy\/portugal-stands-firm-on-austerity-measures\/article1489123\/\">freeze public wages<\/a> in an effort to battle the country&#8217;s 9.3% deficit, which it much trim to 3% in order to get back into the Euro zone standards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ninety-percent-of-capital-health-workers-skip-to-protest-austerity-budget-in-portugal-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/portugal-fails-to-pass-austerity-budget-and-opts-for-more-debt-2010-2\">Portugal Fails To Pass Austerity Budget, Prays To God It Can Access More Debt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/credit-default-swaps-show-that-now-portugals-financial-health-is-flat-lining-like-the-piig-domino-it-is-2010-2\">Euro Bludgeoned As Portuguese Government Debt Disaster Sparks Credit Default Swap Panic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/prepare-for-black-wednesday-all-over-again-as-europe-looks-like-1992-2010-2\">Prepare For Black Wednesday All Over Again As Europe Looks Like 1992<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/86aijQ6eDhA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government employees took to the streets of Lisbon today to protest the Portuguese government&#8217;s cuts in public sector wages. According to a Correio da Manha translation, ninety percent of public health workers participated in the protest. The government is attempting to freeze public wages in an effort to battle the country&#8217;s 9.3% deficit, which it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rvf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783527,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682325\/revisions\/783527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}