Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Spain’s Sevasa says trade unions cause severe damage on Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring company Sevasa has warned against the severe damage that the opposition of trade...
Employers remain optimistic about the European Social Dialogue for Ports
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) March 1, 2017 – The European Social Dialogue for Ports was established in June 2013 by port employers and employees to...
ANESCO, trade unions agree on basis of talks for future collective bargaining
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring companies association ANESCO and trade unions Coordinadora, UGT and Comisiones...
Andalusia government warns against negative consequences from stowage reform
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – The vice president of Andalusia regional government, Manuel Jimenez Barrios, has warned against the...
Spanish Public Works Minister urges trade unions, employers to negotiate
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Inigo de la Serna, has called on employers and stevedores unions to...
Spanish Council of Ministers approves stowage sector reform
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the Royal Decree Law reforming the stowage sector. The...
Coordinadora again asks government to postpone stevedoring sector reform
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Spanish dockworkers trade union Coordinadora has called on the government to include a clause...
Unions press Spanish government to negotiate stowage system with workers – IDC
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – A press release from the International Dockworkers Council (IDC). International protest rises...
Global dockworkers trade union expresses support to longshoremen in Spain
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Global trade union International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has expressed its support to Spanish...
Spanish trade unions call strikes at ports as of Mar 6
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Spanish dockworker trade unions announced a strike on March 6 against government plans to adopt a law...
Ignazio Messina’s employees at Genoa port agree labour deal
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – The employees of Italian company Ignazio Messina & C at Genoa port have signed an agreement changing...
Spanish trade unions cancel strike at ports, government delays reform
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Spanish trade unions cancelled the national strikes at Spanish ports on February 20, 22 and 24, as...
European ports start project supporting sustainable mobility
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Representatives of the management of Valencia, Igoumenitsa, Dürres, Kotor and Limassol ports...
Spanish competition watchdog investigates trade unions, companies at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2017 – Spanish national competition regulator CNMC has started an investigation into trade unions and companies...
Valencia port to build professional training centre
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to build a centre for the professional...
Spanish government says longshoremen’s strike weakens border control in Ceuta
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2017 – Spanish State Secretary for Security, Jose Antonio Nieto, accused the longshoremen strike in the country...
Spanish Public Works Ministry, trade unions to discuss port reform on Feb 14
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Public Works will meet with trade unions again on February 14 to try to approach...