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Spanish Dockers Strike

A category used to code a Spanish dockers strike which took place in 2017.

Vigo port president says harbour resists to stowage, BIP problems

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has presented...

Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...

Strikes have limited effect on Santander port’s car traffic 

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – The seven days of strikes that took place in June in the port of Santander during the conflict of stevedores...

Spanish ship consignment firms to set up association of companies outside ANESCO

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Spanish ship consignment sector has begun to work intensively in a short space of time to create a new...

Spanish docking strike had mixed implications – government offical

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The stowage strike carried out during three weeks last June was more harmful for some ports than for...

Spanish government to ensure dockworkers sector agreement is legal

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, has said that the government will ensure that the...

Social Dialogue Committee for Ports meeting does not take place

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – Last March 1, 2017, the Social Dialogue for Ports meeting in Brussels was interrupted after IDC and ETF...

Spanish government says docking sector situation is returning to normal

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Spanish State Secretary of Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Julio Gómez-Pomar, has said that the...

European dock workers set to strike June 29

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has called a Europe-wide port stoppage in support of the...

Spanish stevedores cancel strikes on June 29

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Spanish stevedores have just issued a statement announcing that they will hold a meeting with union Asociación...

Spanish ports’ labour dispute suspended

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The labour dispute has taken a breather after trade unions suspended three of the nine days of the strike...

Solution of Spanish dockers conflict depends on consolidation of Anesco

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – It looks like the labour conflict in the stowage sector has also created an internal division in dockworker...

Spain’s Ership abandons Anesco

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The president of Spanish shipping company Grupo Ership S.A., Juan Alvargonzález Figaredo, said the firm has...

Spain’s Gesport seeks solution to operate at Las Palmas port as of July

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Gesport Terminal Marítima (GTM), the first authorised terminal operator in Spain after the liberalisation...

Spanish trade unions cancel strikes on June 23, 26

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Spanish trade unions have cancelled the strikes called for June 23 and 26, as a sign of goodwill and to give...

Suardíaz strikes deal with dockworkers, avoids strikes at Vigo port

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Spanish company Suardíaz, which operates the Vigo Motorway of the Sea, has reached an agreement with the workers...

CETM rejects employers’ proposal, companies sign separate contracts with trade union

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – Spanish trade union of dockworkers Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) rejected on June 20 the...

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