Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Piraeus Port Authority sign labour agreement
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 22, 2019 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced the signing of the New Collective Labour Agreement with the...
Transcont Valencia announces five days of strikes
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – Autonomous truck drivers association Transcont Valencia association plans to carry out demonstrations on...
Valenciaport Foundation attends meeting of the SKILLFUL project in Dublin
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2019 – On the 7-8 March, the Valenciaport Foundation attended a follow-up meeting of the SKILLFUL (Skills and...
Sintraport ends strikes at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport has decided not to call new mobilisations...
Sintraport’s strike in Barcelona may spread to other ports
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – While the longshoremen’s conflict remains latent in Spanish ports, it is now the transporters who...
Barcelona port expresses willingness to dialogue with Sintraport
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport held a day of protest in the centre of Barcelona,...
Italian trade unions back Naples port workers strike against self-handling
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The national secretariats of Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti confirmed the support...
Spain’s Sintraport continues protest action in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – After five days of demonstrations and strikes in the port of Barcelona, Spanish autonomous truck drivers...
Spain’s Sintraport to continue protest action next week
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport plans to continue its protest action in...
Sintraport in talks on working conditions to continue strike next week
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport is holding meetings with companies active...
Italian trade unions call strike of CULMV employees at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have called a strike of the employees of Genoa port...
Strike blocks container trucks at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The autonomous container transporters of the port of Barcelona started their first day of work stoppages,...
ANESCO calls for reduction of port fees in Spain
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Spain’s Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of...
Valenciaport Foundation trains ports managers from Brazil and Angola
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – Valenciaport Foundation has trained 22 Brazilian and Angolan managers of ports and private companies...
Gioia Tauro port workers end blockade as MSC guarantees investments
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Workers at Gioia Tauro port have removed the blockade of the harbour they launched on February 13...
Koper port’s tender for external hiring contractor fails
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Koper port has selected no offers for a public contract for an external company hiring workers at the...
Barcelona port closes 2018 with 534 employees
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Barcelona port has consolidated its average workforce above half a thousand people. After closing a...
Spain’s stowage reform marks most disputed trade union elections in recent years
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Spain’s reform of the stowage sector, which put workers and companies on the warpath due...
New Malta Freeport collective agreement will lead to improved efficiency
Freeport, Malta (Ports Europe) February 9, 2019 – Malta Freeport Terminals has signed a new collective agreement with the General Workers’ Union for...
Valencia port opens two hours ahead of schedule despite stevedores’ assembly
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The paralysis of Valencia port by a gathering of stevedores on February 7 has turned out to be less longer...