the Spanish unions proclaim other four strikes of 48 hours of the harbour workers



The 48 hours of strike yesterday carried out and other yesterday in the Spanish ports have recorded a high adhesion from the harbour workers and other manifestations of protest have been programmed at the end of this month and the beginning of July in order to induce the harbour terminalisti to sign an agreement with the unions, understanding that give the approval to May of the regal bill on the harbour job is seemed of difficult to reach in spite of the repeated declarations of the parts of the will to find a solution shared.

Puertos of the Estado has announced that strike as soon as concluded it has obtained an adhesion of about 98.5% of the workers in all national the harbour system. The Spanish governmental agency has confirmed that, had news of the arrest warrant of the activity on the docks, the navigation companies have proceeded to reprogram their ports of call in order to avoid touched to the Spanish ports. In particular, Puertos of the Estado has specified that the transfer has happened on other ports of the ports of call of 19 ships that originally were programmed to the port of Algeciras, landing place that is avoided and that - has specified the governmental agency - it has induced many customers to demand the disembarkation of their goods in alternative ports as Sines, in Portugal, Fos, in France, and Rotterdam, in Holland, from where for being able to organize the transport of the goods via earth. Relatively to the port of Valencia, 13 ships turned out to the deep one waiting for the conclusion of strike, while seven ports of call of ships are diverted on other ports. Also the port of Barcelona has marked the transfer of five ports of call on other ports.

Concluded last night the two days of protest, the minister of the economic Development, Iñigo de the Serna, has invited the unions "to suspend strike and to stop the hemorrhage of definitive transfers of ships that is happening, avoiding infallible damages so for the economy of the Country, the productive woven one and the safeguard of the occupation".

The appeal of the minister has remained unheard. As soon as finished strike, in fact, without to attend the results of the extraordinary reunion indetta in order today from the association of terminalisti ANESCO in order to examine the proposed new of agreement introduced in recent days from the unions, these last ones of it have programmed others of 48 hours that, rather than of uninterrupted duration as this last one, will be carried out with the arrest warrant of the single job in the uneven hours. The suspensions to sob of the activity are proclaimed between the hours 8,00 on 26 June and hours 8,00 on 28 June and, with same hour cadence, between on 29 June and on 1° July, on 3 July and on 5 July and on 6 July and the 8 July.