Dockers admit return to strikes

Dockers admit return to strikes

http://felixstowedocker.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/dockers-admit-return-to-strikes.html

Victor Dias, the Stevedores' Union, says that currently favors to political struggle, legal and union, but the strike never failed to be on the table. 14-01-2013 15:33

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The stevedores admit the return to strike as a protest against the new rules of the port work.

With the new rules of the port work published today in the Official Gazette, the unions representing longshoremen will, for now, proceed with a request for successive control to the Constitutional Court and even a complaint to the International Labour Organisation.

Vitor Dias, president of the Union of Dockers also complains that the government is promoting unemployment: "The fact that we suspended the strike does not mean that relinquished the fight. The fight continues and we have several ways of doing even the strike, was never ruled out. Now, we focus on the fight at this point in the three fields, legal, political and union. "

The law, published today in the Official Gazette, has been the subject of great controversy. At the end of last year followed up strikes by longshoremen, paralyzing many national ports for months, with advance notice to be canceled however at the end of the year.

Victor Dias also criticized the fact that, on the day of publication of the law, and contrary to the guarantees made to the stevedores, there have been only 18 redundancies at the Port of Liboa.

Is there any chance of an update from NISC? Where do we stand with PP3, Dock Regs etc.?

Hope it went well today and thanks to the reps who attended.

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Is there any chance of an update from NISC? Where do we stand with PP3, Dock Regs etc.?

We are waiting for the dates to be agreed this week by our brothers in Europe, as soon as the plan of action is agreed we'll circulate it.

Hope it went well today and thanks to the reps who attended.

On Docks Regs, Unite is maintaining that we keep the full Approved Code of Practice, we are awaiting confirmation that this is signed and sealed.