Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Spain signs collective labour agreement for port workers
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador De la Encina, has met with union representatives to sign the III...
Setúbal port dockworkers approve collective labour deal
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2019 – Setúbal port’s dockworkers unanimously approved the new collective bargaining agreement negotiated...
Setúbal port’s strike damages Portuguese economic growth in 2018
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2019 – The protests of the workers in the port of Setúbal, which occurred last year, significantly damaged the...
Genoa port ship repair workers to strike on May 16
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – Italian trade union Fiom Cgil plans to stage a strike of ship repair workers at Genoa port on May...
Mostaganem port workers end 18-day strike
Mostaganem, Algeria (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – The workers of the port of Mostaganem resumed work on May 13, after a strike which lasted 18...
Italian trade unions to stage 24-hour port strike on May 23
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 9, 2019 – Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti plan to jointly hold a 24-hour strike of port workers...
Ceuta port generates 25% of city’s employment
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) May 7, 2019 – The employment impact of Ceuta port of has been the central base of the study presented by a...
Spanish stevedoring committee approves modification of Bilbao port’s collective labour agreement
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) May 6, 2019 – Spanish stevedoring sector joint committee has approved the agreement to modify Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB...
Italy’s Uiltrasport warns of potential strike at ports
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Italian trade union Uiltrasporti has warned agains a potential strike at ports in the country agains the slow...
Setúbal port approves extension of collective labour deal talks deadline
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Setúbal port dockworkers have approved the extension until May 8 of the negotiation period for the new...
Spain’s CCOO calls off ports strike scheduled for April 26
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Spanish trade union CCOO (Confederacion Sindical de Comisiones Obreras) has called off the strike...
Puertos del Estado reaches agreement on collective labour contract
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has said that an agreement has been reached with trade unions...
Trade unions call off strike at Spanish ports
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Spanish trade unions CCOO, UGT and CIG have called off the 24-hour port strike scheduled for April 17, 2019,...
Italian trade unions suspend talks on renewal of national contract for port workers
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti has suspended the negotiations for the renewal of the...
Spanish trade union CCOO calls port workers strike on April 17
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Spanish trade union CC OO union has called a strike of 21 hours of port workers on April 17. The reason is...
Norway-based WWO organises RoRo Academy at Santander port
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 1, 2019 – Norway-based shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean (WWO), in collaboration with Santander port,...
Koper port piloting services employees to launch strike in April
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – Koper port’s piloting services employees plan to launch a strike on April 3 to demand greater safety at...
Spain approves aid to longshoremen including in downsizing schemes
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2019 – Spain’s government has approved the Royal Decree-Law which develops the reform of the stowage sector...
Valenciaport Foundation signs cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Infrastructure of Brazil and port associations
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – At the Intermodal South America fair, held in São Paulo from March 19 to 21, a cooperation agreement was...
Sintraport presents proposals to negotiate the transport conditions of Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport has asked the Barcelona port authority and the...