"In solidarity with their colleagues [who were notified], nobody will leave here today," said Pedro Pardal Henriques this morning in Aveiras de Cima, Lisbon’s main fuel depot.

"Nobody will comply with the minimum services or civil requisition, they will do absolutely nothing", the National Union of Drivers of Dangerous Materials (SNMMP) lawyer said.

The minister of the environment and energy transition, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, said on Tuesday that 14 workers did not comply with the civil requisition decreed by the Government in the drivers' strike.

"We were told [by the companies] that 14 workers did not comply with the civil requisition," the minister said at a press conference on the second day of the drivers' strike.

The minister also said that 11 of these workers "have been duly notified," adding that first there is "notification of non-compliance and then there is a notification that they are committing a crime of disobedience.

As for the remaining three workers, they are still "to be found and notified," João Pedro Matos Fernandes added.

"The people here were extremely upset by the Minister's announcement," Pardal Henriques said, adding that the drivers "are not criminals.

"What they [drivers] said today is that if one driver goes to jail, then the minister will have to bring large buses to take the country’s 800 drivers," he said.

According to the minister, all "sick notes will be investigated.

Dangerous goods and merchandise drivers are today on the third day of an indefinite strike, which led the government to issue a civil requisition on Monday afternoon, alleging non-compliance with the minimum services.

The strike was called for a wage rise.