The crash between the Spanish government and the unions is aggravated on the topic of the harbour job



One is dilating to the divergence between the Spanish government and the unions on how with which it must be changed the national norm on the harbour job in order to adapt it to the legislation of the EU so as sped up last year from the EU commission. Complaining that Spain has not still supplied to align own norms to those communitarian ones, Brussels in fact has newly submitted Spain to the Law court of the EU that already 11 Decembers of 2014 had emitted a sentence with which it had established that the Spanish law in matter is not in compliance with the European legislation.

After the encounter of the days slid between the minister of the economic Development, Íñigo de Serna Hernáiz, and the representatives of the labor organizations, that it has evidenced the remarkable distance between the parts ( on 3 February 2017), the situation quickly has been aggravated with protests that have remarkablly slowed down the activity in the Spanish ports, above all in the three main national ports of call of Algeciras, Barcelona and Valencia.

Yesterday the Ministry of the economic Development has launch an appeal to the dialogue and to the responsibility to the aim to reach an agreement on the harbour job, the efficiency has condemned the actions in order to slow down the activity in the ports diminishing some and has censured "the sabotage and vandalism actions that - it has specified the ministry - second the enterprises are happening". Moreover the Ministry has exhorted to restore a dialogue and normality climate and has recalled to the respect of the strike right specifying that in such within minimums established before the proclamation of the fixed days of strike for 20, 22 are previewed the services and 24 February next.

Remembering that the reform of the national norm on the harbour job answers to a obligation established from a sentence of the European Union, the Ministry has emphasized that the government is conversing incessantly from two years with the enterprises and the unions and that today, in the center of the ministry, is previewed a new encounter with the representatives of the datoriale part and the workers.

"The limits of the negotiation - it has specified the Ministry in a note - are those marked from the EU commission that has already expressed own contrarietà regarding the creation of a national registry of the harbour workers, so as they propose the unions. This - it has remembered the ministry - is own one of the points contained in the document signed from the terminaliste enterprises and the unions. In date 27 July the 2016 - the Ministry has remembered moreover - EU commission has answered to the Reign of Spain that the registry cannot be created. "The list of the dependent", it exactly says the letter sent from the general manager of the Transports and of Mobility of the EU commission - the ministry has announced - "it must be held to business level. It does not have to be constituted some national registry"".

The Ministry of the economic Development has emphasized at last that if soon the European Union will emit a second adverse sentence to Spain, this will involve for Spain the payment of a every day endorsement pairs to 134 thousand euros that will join to the fine of 21,5 million euros to which already now Spain it must tackle.

Yesterday the union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores of the Sea has restated instead that "it is the enterprises is the workers consider that the agreement from they signed, in which a registry of the harbour workers put on of the several enterprises in every port is previewed, answers clearly to the European sentence that to paragraph 44 it indicates that Convention 137 of the International Labor Organization is not incompatible with article 49 of the Treaty on the Operation of the European Union that refers to the plant freedom".

"Paragraph 44 of the sentence - it has found the labor organization - recites as it follows: "at last, the Commission supports that the dispositions of the Convention n. 137, in matter of social repercussions of the new methods of cargo handling in the ports, in some case obligate the States that have ratified the Convention to impose restrictions as those previewed from the Spanish harbour norm. In reality, examples of norms harbour in vigor in other Member States, in which consistent measures to article 49 of the TFUE settle as those of which paragraph 42 of sentence anticipates, demonstrate that to the protection of the harbour work and the respect of the Convention n. 137 can be guaranteed from such measures"".

Moreover the Coordinadora union has emphasized that it is continuing the subscription of the agreement on the harbour job between enterprises and labor organizations with the objective to respect the terms of the sentence of the EU, understanding that is signed up to now by 46 terminaliste societies, between which - it has evidenced the union - some between the more present important in Spain.

Coordinadora has specified that the workers are convinced that the better way in order to reform the system of the harbour job is that based on the consent. "The harbour workers - he has concluded the union - maintain the same availability dealing with the Ministry that they had announced to February 2015 to Ana Pastor". Words, these, with which the union perhaps exhorts minister Íñigo de Serna Hernáiz to make some step behind and returning on the positions of the Pastor, that it has been at the head of the same Ministry until last July, that they were sure more neighbors to those of the labor organization.