the European harbour community exhorts the EU commission not to introduce proposed legislative that can undermine the social peace in the ports



The formed European harbour community from the Harbour Authorities and the datoriali and social parts has invited the EU commission to abstain from legislative proposed new directly inherent the topics of the conditions of job in the European ports and of the improvement of the competitiveness of the harbour ports of call of the EU.

The unions European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) and International Dockworkers Council (IDC), the association of the European terminalisti Private Federation of European Port Operators (FEPORT) and the association of the European Harbour Authorities European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) have emphasized today that "in the current economic and social picture he is fundamental to maintain the social peace in the communitarian ports: this - they have found - can be guaranteed solo through a dialogue continuous and opened between the social parts and, if opportune or previewed, with the institutions".

"The role of the European institutions - they have observed ETF, IDC, FEPORT and ESPO - would have to be mainly that to assure that sussistano the best conditions for the dialogue and for helping the social parts to reach agreements on issues that allow the continuous development of the field".

ETF, IDC, FEPORT and ESPO have remembered that in June 2013, with the support of the EU commission, they have constituted the Committee of sector social dialogue for the ports, organism through which the social parts intend to work together in order to contribute to the improvement of the conditions of job of the people employed in the field let alone in order to increase the competitiveness and the productivity in the communitarian ports.

According to ETF, IDC, FEPORT and ESPO, this Committee would have to collaborate to the social dialogue are in the ports that on a national level in the full respect of the laws, contracts collectives and the existing organizational models in the several ports of the European Union. For the four organizations, moreover, when it is necessary to bring modifications these models, such variations they would have to be negotiated, where previewed, from the social parts, in conformity with the norms in vigor and future. ETF, IDC, FEPORT and ESPO have observed that to European level the social parts are already discussing issues key which the formation and the qualifications, the health and safety let alone the parity between the seies and that will be tried to widen the within of the argument to the innovation in the harbour field so as to allow with the European ports to remain competitive.

All this evidently in order to understate that new advanced legislative proposals from the EU commission in harbour matter could instead hinder this dialogue or, worse, to interrupt it.