Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Spanish dockworkers to accept reduction of wages
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – Spanish stevedores will accept a 10% cut in salary for the higher salaries, early retirement schemes and...
Spain’s Anesco rejects proposal for change in bylaws
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish association of ship consignees and dockworker employers Asociación Nacional de...
Spanish trade union CETM ratifies preliminary agreement to start talks with Anesco
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish stevedores trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) has ratified the preliminary...
Spanish trade union cancels first five days of strikes at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish stevedores trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) and employers union...
Spanish minister praises preliminary labour deal on port reform
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has expressed his satisfaction that trade unions have...
Spanish public works minister says stevedores, employers have all tools to strike deal
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Spanish public works minister Íñigo de la Serna said that trade unions of stevedores and employers union...
Barcelona port president warns against consequences of potential strike
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) president Sixte Cambra has warned that a strike at...
Spanish stevedores, employees to meet on May 22 to discuss sector reform
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Spanish stevedores’ trade unions and companies will hold their first meeting after the approval in...
Spanish government calls on trade unions to cancel strikes at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Spanish Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Julio Gómez-Pomar, has called on stevedores to dismiss the call...
EC says Spanish port reform decree complies with rules
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – The European Commission (EC) said that the decree approved yesterday by the Spanish parliament to liberalise the...
Vigo port president says dock strikes affect entire Spanish economy
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – In Vigo port, which has the largest group of stevedores in the region of Galicia, the consequences of the conflict...
Cádiz port generates 3% of province’s employment
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – A study by the University of Cádiz has estimated the employment impact and the gross value added (GVA) generated...
Spanish dockworkers trade unions express readiness to negotiate
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish dockworkers trade unions consider that the government is “giving” them a...
Spanish minister asks dockworkers for “common sense”
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Inigo de la Serna, today asked trade unions of dockers and employers for...
Spanish Congress ratifies stowage sector reform decree
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – The Spanish Congress of Deputies has ratified by a simple majority the royal decree of reform of the...
Portuguese stevedores not to service ships diverted from Spain
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – After the Spanish government approved a decree for the reform of the stowage sector and trade unions announced...
Spanish parliament to discuss stowage sector reform on May 18
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – A new call for strikes in Spanish ports by the stowage trade unions has not had an impact, at the moment, on...
Spanish minister warns against consequences of dockworkers’ strike
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works Inigo de la Serna warned against the risks that the strikes of stevedores...
Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd returns to Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – German group Hapag-Lloyd returns to the Guixar container terminal of Vigo port. Ships of Hapag-Lloyd have not been...
Spanish government approves decree on port stowage reform
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 12, 2017 – The Spanish government has approved on May 12 a new decree for the reform of the country’s port...