From centre right one row back is Phil Pemberton, Johnny Goodhand and Alun Yates representing the Dockers from The Port Of Felixstowe
December 11, 2012
Dockers in Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, Malta, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, affiliated IDC (International Dockworkers Council) and ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation), and representatives ILWU (
International Longshore and Warehouse Union) in the United States, met in the morning at World Trade Center in Barcelona at the European Conference Dockworkers, which examined the fundamental problems that threaten today stowage and agreed creation of a Joint Liaison between IDC and ITF will meet in January to finalize the measures pressure in protest against neoliberal policies that are destroying jobs and undermining the working conditions of the port, including the stop European ports in the first quarter of 2013. The spirit of this European meeting of workers was reflected in the Barcelona Declaration of the European Conference of Dockers, approved by all attendees.
In that statement, the European dockers collect the "European Commissioner Siim Kallas has designed and implemented a new strategy to weaken the social rights of European stevedores" directives heir port projects that were rejected twice by the Parliament European and who demonstrated against all European dockers and major organizations and leading port operators rigged broad social movements.
In the Barcelona Declaration also find that several European countries and dockers are still victims of unilateral strategy of Commissioner Kallas using instruments ranging from the reasoned opinion against the recent Spanish legislation, until the pressure on the Portuguese government to modify the labor under the dictation of the stow their mandates; through labor deregulation of port terminals and predictable Greek pressure on Belgium and Germany for their respective governments to act in a similar way.
"The goal is the same, deregulate national stevedoring models impose unjustifiable under the guise of freedom of establishment of companies in ports, a weakening of the unions that allow precarious economic conditions, social and professional of European stevedores "according to the declaration.
View of Commissioner Kallas will impose its neoliberal model to Europe by way of the facts, knowing that national stevedoring member states have historically shaped, with the consensus and agreements on labor and business organizations, some models that allow the maintenance of employment and decent working conditions, while contributing to the economic development of the EU and their countries with very high productivity and international competitiveness, longshoremen have approved a series of agreements, contained in the Declaration Barcelona. Among them, show their willingness to European social dialogue in the port sector by claiming it will be a tool to help improve the excellence of European ports compatible with maintaining decent and organizations require port operators, shipping and port authorities favorable positioning this social dialogue, as well as requiring the cessation of unilateral strategy of Commissioner Kallas that without social dialogue, will result in the continued deterioration of the stability and productivity of European ports
THE LATEST INFO I HAVE GOT, FROM OUR DOCKERS DEMO IN LISBON NOV 29TH. THE GOVERNMENT ARE AFRAID TO VOTE YES TO THE NEW LAW, SO NOW THEY WANT TO MEET WITH OUR PORTUGESE FAMILY....
In that statement, the European dockers collect the "European Commissioner Siim Kallas has designed and implemented a new strategy to weaken the social rights of European stevedores" directives heir port projects that were rejected twice by the Parliament European and who demonstrated against all European dockers and major organizations and leading port operators rigged broad social movements.
In the Barcelona Declaration also find that several European countries and dockers are still victims of unilateral strategy of Commissioner Kallas using instruments ranging from the reasoned opinion against the recent Spanish legislation, until the pressure on the Portuguese government to modify the labor under the dictation of the stow their mandates; through labor deregulation of port terminals and predictable Greek pressure on Belgium and Germany for their respective governments to act in a similar way.
"The goal is the same, deregulate national stevedoring models impose unjustifiable under the guise of freedom of establishment of companies in ports, a weakening of the unions that allow precarious economic conditions, social and professional of European stevedores "according to the declaration.
View of Commissioner Kallas will impose its neoliberal model to Europe by way of the facts, knowing that national stevedoring member states have historically shaped, with the consensus and agreements on labor and business organizations, some models that allow the maintenance of employment and decent working conditions, while contributing to the economic development of the EU and their countries with very high productivity and international competitiveness, longshoremen have approved a series of agreements, contained in the Declaration Barcelona. Among them, show their willingness to European social dialogue in the port sector by claiming it will be a tool to help improve the excellence of European ports compatible with maintaining decent and organizations require port operators, shipping and port authorities favorable positioning this social dialogue, as well as requiring the cessation of unilateral strategy of Commissioner Kallas that without social dialogue, will result in the continued deterioration of the stability and productivity of European ports
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