the Spanish unions have rejected the proposal on the introduced harbour job from the terminalisti



Yesterday the association of harbour terminalisti Spanish ANESCO has sent to the unions a new proposed relative to the negotiations on national the collective contract of the harbour workers, proposal that ready is rejected by the labor organizations.

In its document the Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras y Consignatarias de Buques (ANESCO) has evidenced the necessity to negotiate a new agreement national sector picture in order to adapt the enforced collective contract to the new legal scene determined as a result of the effectiveness of regal bill 8/2017 on the harbour job in conformity with the sentence of 11 Decembers 2014 of the Law court of the European Union, adverse to Spain, for violation of its precedence sentence in matter of freedom of plant of enterprises of other States of the EU in the Spanish ports.

The association of the terminalisti has proposed that such negotiations happen on the base of a calendar and an agenda of encounters agreed in the course of a period in which the parts, to the aim to facilitate the dialogue, they are engaged to guarantee the stability of the activity on the docks, that is the unions would have to revoke announced strikes and to be engaged not to proclaim of others, while ANESCO would be engaged to recommend own associates not to carry out some modification to the activities during the period of the negotiations. ANESCO has shown a six series meets legal in the course of a period comprised between today and on 6 October, date - this last one - within which they would have to be added the signatures on the new national collective contract for the field of the harbour job.

The proposal of the ANESCO previews that, defined calendar and agenda of the encounters, the two parts entrust the development of the negotiations to own delegations constituted to the maximum from four people and that it negotiate must be concluded with the signature of an all-encompassing agreement that includes all the dealt topics and agreed any understanding already it is reached in the phases precedence of the encounters between the representatives of the entrepreneurs and the unions.

More specifically, the document sent from the ANESCO to the labor organizations previews among other things that it corresponds to the terminaliste enterprises, in quality of employers, the management, the organization and the control of the working activities of the harbour workers and that the same faculty corresponds to the enterprises in the event that the activities are carried out through the Centros Portuarios de Empleo (CPE) or the Sociedades Anónimas de Gestión de Estibadores Portuarios (SAGEP) or through the Empresas de Trabajo Temporal (ETT).

Moreover the proposal of the ANESCO previews that the parts agree a reduction of 10% of the salary and wage of the workers interested from national the sector agreement and that, if an enterprise shareholder of a SAGEP intends to exit from this without its participation comes entirely assumed from another shareholder, the workers who beginning from on May 13, 2017 had an employment contract with a SAGEP can decide of being assumed from the enterprise that has sen in order to exit from the SAGEP. Relatively to the procedure of selection and assumption of the staff, the document previews that it corresponds exclusively to the terminaliste enterprises, the SAGEP, the CPE or the ETT that intend to assume new workers in the just organic one to determine the number of offered positions, the criteria for the selection and the decision of assumption.

The unions Confederación General of Trabajo (Cgt), Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG), Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores of Mar and Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) have replied that the proposal of the employers, that they have employed months in order to write up it, does not include not even the guarantee of the full occupation and do not bring some innovation regarding topics already rejected in the course of the precedence negotiations.

"Once more - they have denounced the labor organizations - do-nothing policy of the datoriale part, the ANESCO, has prevented any rapprochement between the positions of the employers and the harbour workers". Therefore, second the unions, the proposal "cannot that be interpreted as an interest lack to reach an agreement by the ANESCO, than every time any possibility of approach of the positions blocks".

Cgt, CIG, Coordinadora and UGT have rimarcato that the position and the interests of the ANESCO do not correspond to those of the totality of the other enterprises: "against such situation - they have emphasized the unions - the entrepreneurial large groups that operate in Spain have kept a distance from the official position of the NESCO, that he is governed by a group of companies that does not represent the general opinion".

The unions therefore have confirmed that the protest manifestations will continue as from programs, but have specified that strikes will not hit those companies that have been engaged to guarantee the rights of the workers and that they have expressed intention a real intention to lead negotiations.