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LISBON underground railway workers walked out for 24 hours today in protest at government privatisation plans.
Traffic in the Portuguese capital ground to a standstill while roads around the city faced serious congestion.
It is the third case of strike action on the Lisbon Metro in the last two months as workers fight to save their public transport system from privateers.
The network is due to be handed to the private sector for at least nine years under the savage austerity programme of supposedly social-democratic Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
His government also plans to flog the TAP Air Portugal airline and hand contracts for bus and rail services to private firms.
Transport union Fectrans spokeswoman Anabela Carvalheira says workers are also angry at job cuts and harassment by bosses.
