Portugal Dockers Strike / Access To Port Services

Great success of participation in the strike today. European ports have stopped from 8 to 9 am without incident. We . We have made it our responsibility to our colleagues in Portugal


The principal issue here in Portugal : the government is ,trying to aprove a law to take out all the Dockers/stevedore from the Docks/Ports saying that you don´t need to be a Docker/stevedore to do the job 

in the Port/Dock.

Solidarity strikes for the Portuguese dockers and against the introduction of Port Package 3 in eight European countries today.

If the employers and the EU Commission refuses to back off and return to the negotiating table, we will all have to step it up. Soon.

120925: Solidarity strikes for the Portuguese dockers stopped production in Gothenburg and other Swedish ports

On Tuesday a one-hour strike in solidarity with the Portuguese dockers brought all production in the port of Gothenburg to a standstill. Solidarity strikes between 8.00 and 9.00 AM were held all over Sweden and in seven other European countries to support the striking dockers in Portugal. Today's international industrial action, coordinated by the International Dockworkers' Council, coincided with the opening of the EU-commission's meeting in Brussels concerning the future of the port industry.

From Gothenburg and other Swedish ports, the message was clear: We stand with our Portuguese collegues in their important struggle for decent working conditions and respect for health and safety.

What is happening in Portugal happened in the UK in 1989 when the Government ended the National Dock Labour Scheme. It made tens of thousands of dockers unemployed, cut the wages of every remaining docker and brought casual labour back into the docks; the numbers of people getting killed in the docks also rose. After this the Government started to sell off the ports to private companies, and we all know what happens then! Beware brothers, this will just be the start if they win.

Best, COMMON TRADE UNION FRONT PORTS of BELGIUM FGTB-BTB-ACV-NOVOTEL-ACLVB Antwerp, 25 september 2012.
Port workers and Craftsmen to our members.
SOLIDARITY ACTION with the PORTUGUESE PORT WORKERS After the victories in PP I and II are there for some time from Europe to reschedule forged statutes and rights acquired by the port workers to attack.
Portugal can be considered a laboratory for the future port policy in Euro-pa: several of the measures proposed by the Portuguese Government come perfectly match the proposals at European level can be expected. More specifically the Portuguese text would lead to a deregulation of the Statute for the port worker, inter alia by the pool system to attack.
By the common Front in Portugal were all workers therefore called for a series of strikes, starting from 17 september until the end of the month.
Also in our Federal Government agreement was, under the pressure of certain employers and havenbestu-ren, the "modernisation" of the port labour announced.
The European port trade unions have decided to declare 25 september 2012 action and information day to advance a strong signal to the European Commission, which on that same day a European port Conference organizes in Brussels.
Therefore organises the common trade union front ports of Belgium in all Belgian seaports punctuality actions, where the port workers are informed about the European plans.
FOLLOW THE ORDER WORDS OF THE TRADE UNION TOGETHER WE ARE STRONG!


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