the Spanish parliament has rejected the bill on the harbour job



Yesterday the Spanish parliament, with 174 contrary ballots, 142 ballots to favor and 33 abstentions, has rejected the regal bill on the elaborated harbour job from the government who has taken effect 25th February provoking actions of protest that in the last weeks the activity has slowed down on the docks of the national ports.

A provision previews essentially that the terminalisti do not have the obligation to participate to the capital of the Sociedades Anónimas de Gestión de Estibadores Portuarios (SAGEP), the limited companies that manage the harbour job, neither to make use priority of the staff which put on from these societies. I decree previews instead full freedom of personnel management through the assumption directed by the terminaliste enterprises and the resource to the supplied temporary job from the temp agencies or the Centros Portuarios de Empleo (CPE), new centers for the harbour job second disciplined the legislation applied to the obliged temp agencies and to at least assign 1% of the total of the wage costs to the continuous formation of the workers. I decree previews moreover that the modification of the modalities of employment of the harbour workers must happen over a period of transition three-year-old to conclusion of which all the SAGEP would have to be transforming in temp agencies.

As a result of the failure of the provision by the parliament the unions have revoked strikes indetti for the days today and of the 20, 22 and 24 March. "The groups parliamentarians of PSOE, Podemos, Izquierda Unida, Esquerra Republicana, PDCat, EH Bildu, Compromís, Canarian Coalición, Nueva Canarias y Tide, with their contrary ballot, and also of Ciudadanos, with the abstention - they have emphasized the unions Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores of Sea, UGT, CCOO, CIG and Cgt - have done so as that the responsibility has prevailed to the parliament and that is not validated the proposed authoritarian bill from the minister of the economic Development, than is not accepted by the field".

Coordinadora, UGT, CCOO, CIG and Cgt have specified that the failure of I decree "represents a starting point for the development of adapted negotiations so that the European sentence - they have evidenced the labor organizations referring to the pronunciamento of the Law court of the EU that has tax to Spain to adapt own norm in matter to the European legislation - servant to improve a most competitive harbour system that is already one of in Europe and restoring the stability so necessary for the ports and therefore to continue to grow the economy of this Country in the respect of the rights of the workers, in way such that all we will benefit some".