Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Vigo port expects difficulties in ship handling on June 16
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – Vigo port expects difficulties in handling all ships scheduled for June 16, due to the congestion of the vessels...
Dock workers strike paralyses Santander port for second consecutive day
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – The 48-hour strike called by stevedores has paralysed Santander port for the second consecutive day, the...
Dockworkers strike causes diversion of 31 ships from top three Spanish ports
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado said a total of 31 ships have been diverted to other countries...
Spanish minister says government has no responsibility for dockworkers strike
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna said all the responsibility for the strikes of dockworkers is on...
Dock workers strike has no effect on Balearic port traffic
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – The 48-hour stevedores strike that started on June 14 and concludes on June 16 is not causing changes...
All dock workers participate in strike at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – All dock workers in Santander port are following the 48-hour general strike that began at 0800 local time on...
Dockworkers strike causes total block of Spanish ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – The 48-hour strike that Spanish dockworkers started at 0800 local time is causing a “total stop”...
Vigo port president warns that strikers rights have limits
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) president, Enrique López Veiga, today stressed that the right to...
Spanish dock workers employers ask competition watchdog for support
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – The Spanish employers association in the stowage sector and trade unions ended their meeting without agreement...
Call for local employment at Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – Municipal Councilors, Mauro Guerrini and Mirko Mecozzi, have asked the president of the Centre-North...
Spanish dock workers to stage 48-hour strike as of June 14
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish dock workers plan to hold a 48-strike as of June 14 as they did not manage to reach an agreement in...
Castellón port expresses economic concerns over strike
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) and companies active at the harbour expressed...
Spanish minister expresses dissatisfaction with dockworkers’ strike
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the decision of dockworkers to stage a 48-hour...
Spanish minister confident in positive outcome of dockworkers, employers meeting
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has expressed his confidence that the meeting between dock...
Stevedore strike affects Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – After last Monday’s strike in the Port of Barcelona, a new strike began on Wednesday. Only...
Spain’s port strike causes €36 million loss
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – The third day of this week’s port dockers’ strike is followed by almost all stevedores, as in the...
Spanish trade unions stage third strike on June 9
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – Spanish dock workers staged on June 9 their third strike against the reform in the port sector in the country,...