The strikes are expected to impact several services.

The strike, which includes health workers, aims to demand urgent measures to enhance career development, such as the reinstatement of points for salary progression.

The hiring of permanent staff is also on the agenda, to end "the abusive use of overtime and 16-hour workdays."

The union is also demanding risk allowances for auxiliary health and nursing technicians and the end of the time bank and the group time bank by tacit adherence, which it claims deregulates workers' lives and benefits only employers.

The strike covers all healthcare workers, including those working at hospitals, health centres, public institutions, and private entities with contracts with the Unified Health System (SNS).

The strike, declared by the State Workers' Union (STMO), will run from midnight to midnight and aims to demand an interim salary increase based on the inflation rate until the third quarter of 2025, among other measures.

The workers are calling for the creation of a tax-free meal card with a daily value of 12 euros, and are pushing for a specific career path for educational assistant technicians.