the Spanish government has accepted the mediation proposal on the harbour job



The Spanish government has accepted the mediation proposal turns to the attainment of an agreement on the reform of the harbour job that is advanced by Marcos Peña, president of the Consejo Económico y Social de España (CES), the organism whose members are named by the executive of Madrid and whose primary task is to express opinions on the bills.

The proposal - it has explained in a note the Ministry of the economic Development - answers to the issues key, as the safeguard of the occupation, the improvement of the productivity and a system of aids. The Ministry has specified that, for this purpose, the government has manifested the disposition to elaborate regulations to include in the content of the mediation.

The acceptance of the government of a mediation reaches as a result of the outcome negative of the last reunion of Wednesday near the center of the CES in the course of which the labor organizations and datoriali have introduced a maximum agreement that but is rejected by the government.

According to the Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras y Consignatarias de Buques (ANESCO), the association that represents the Spanish harbour terminalisti, "this agreement of maximum answers relatively positively to the problems of the field to the organizational and productive measures so as relatively to the guarantees about the maintenance of the place of work of the current workers".

Also the unions have confirmed the validity of the agreement of maximum, that it anticipate measures in order to improve the productivity and the competitiveness of the Spanish ports, between which the - it has explained the labor organization Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores of the Sea - reduction of 10% of the wage mass.

However, according to the government, the performance of the understanding of maximum agreed from unions and employers would cost to the state treasury 2.415 million euros and moreover the proposal rispondebbe to the demands for which restated the European Union not to adapt the Spanish norm to that communitarian one with the letter sent by Violeta Bulc, European commissioner to the Transports, the minister of the economic Development, Íñigo de the Serna. The Ministry has remembered that the value of the initial proposal of the government for a regime of aids face to the change of the system of the Spanish harbour job is attested to about 120 million euros.