ETF/ITF lashing
campaign targets Unifeeder
Hundreds of
dockworkers from ETF and ITF-affiliated unions will demonstrate tomorrow in
front of the offices of Northern European logistics company Unifeeder in
Aarhus, Denmark for allowing seafarers to lash and unlash their charted
vessels. This is in direct contravention of the ITF dockers’ clause which
specifically reserves lashing and unlashing work for dockers.
01/12/2016
These are highly
dangerous operations that can only be done by trained and experienced workers.
Despite this, ITF inspectors have identified that Unifeeder-chartered vessels
are regularly failing to hiring lashing gangs in European ports and task
seafarers with this dockers’ work.
ETF/ITF Dockers’
Sections’ Vice-Chair Torben Seebold:
“Unifeeder’s practices present an enormous risk for seafarers’ and maritime
safety while at the same time the company jeopardises dockers’ jobs. Our
earlier attempts to have a constructive dialogue with them about cargo lashing
were disregarded. With this protest action we urge them to embark on a
meaningful dialogue and live up to the collective bargaining agreements that
stipulates this type of work is reserved for dockworkers only.”
ETF Dockers’
Section Chair Terje Samuelsen added:
“Tomorrow dockers from Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and
Sweden will gather in Aarhus to voice the need to claim back lashing. We will
show Unifeeder and any other company, master or officer asking seafarers to
carry out dockers’ work that we are ready to increase pressure on them to
adhere to the agreements they sign.”
This
demonstration is part of the ETF/ITF campaign launched in May 2015 to reclaim
lashing for dockworkers. Visit www.ReclaimLashing.org for more information.
ENDS
Find out more
about the ITF dockers’ clause: http://www.itfseafarers.org/ITI-cargo-handling.cfm
Follow activity from
the demonstration on Facebook and Twitter.
For more details
please contact
ITF Press
officer, Sam Dawson. Tel: + 44 (0)20 7940 9260. Email: dawson_sam@itf.org.uk
ETF Press
officer, Koen Reynaerts. Tel: +32 2 285 46 69. Email: k.reynaerts@etf-europe.org
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