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.
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!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5XsIo9U9ys&feature=share
http://felixstowedocker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/european-port-policy-new-port-package.html
Seems like Felixstowe has missed this,if its going to affect all dockers in Europe then we need to stand and fight this. What is the unions and company's stand on this?
ReplyDeleteI agree, ask your union & your line manager to explain it all to you. That is their job !!.
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