Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
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...
Friuli Venezia Giulia region to support port sector’s labour market
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 3, 2019 – Friuli Venezia Giulia will become the first region in Italy to support the local port authority in...
Livorno port management analyses labour situation
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) introduces safety training
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...
Portuguese stevedores launch strike at Praia da Vitória port
Praia da Vitória, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 16, 2019 – Portuguese stevedores trade union Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Atividade Logística (SEAL)...
Limassol port workers to strike January 16
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – Limassol port’s workers plan to stage a 24-hour strike on January 16 to protest against the process...
Setúbal port strike reduces national November exports
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 – Portugal’s Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE – National Statistical Institute) has...
Negotiations of collective agreement with Setúbal port dockworkers resumed
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 – Negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement for the dockworkers at Setúbal port were resumed...
Genoa port guarantees salaries of dockworkers
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2019 – Genoa port’s management has guaranteed the payment of salaries to the employees of dockworkers’...
Trade unions express concerns over future of Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Trade unions active at Livorno port have expressed their joint concern about the future development of Livorno...
Nissan increases workforce at Barcelona port’s distribution centre
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The Nissan vehicle distribution centre in the port of Barcelona has increased its workforce by almost 50%...
Portuguese dockworkers’ strike may cause damage to paper companies
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The strike of dockworkers in Portugal is expected to have a negative impact on the export of paper mills...
Portuguese dockworkers to launch new six-month strike
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Portugal’s dockworkers’ trade union Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Atividade Logística (SEAL)...
ANESCO urges Adif to restore rail traffic to Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of Stevedoring...
AdSP del Mare Di Sardegna (Cagliari) signs port workers agreement
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – From 1 April 2019, 29 former employees of Compagnia Lavoratori Portuali di Cagliari (Cagliari...
Sadoport says that client companies considered leaving Setúbal port definitively
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 – The port administrator has said that the conflict between company management and trade unions has...
Labour conflict causes decline in container traffic at Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Labour instability has resulted in heavy losses in container handling in October in the ports of Lisbon,...
Volkswagen plant in Pamela faces production suspension due to Setúbal port strike
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Autoeuropa, the Volkswagen AG can manufacturing facility in Palmela, has no further space to store...