JNG and ITF speed up the parts to being ready to the effectiveness between six months of the Dockers Clause



The Joint Negotiations Group (JNG), the organism that represents the marine employers of (the shipping ones, marine agencies, society of manning, etc) and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), the international union of the workers of the field of the transports, has exhorted the parts interested from the effectiveness next 1° January of the so-called "Dockers Clause" amended, than precise the modalities of the drainage and loading procedures of cargos of the ships in the ports to the aim of more better protecting the crews of the ships and the rights of the harbour workers to execute own activity, to undertake concrete actions in order to make sure of being consistent to the new dispositions in vigor from the beginning of 2020 recependo the modifications of the terms and the conditions that will influence the operations of handling of cargos.

JNG and ITF refer to the collective contract agreed in the within of the last negotiations within the International Bargaining Forum (IBF), the table in whose aimed at the relationships of job of the marine ones are negotiated, than have carried out in February 2018(on February 23, 2018. The effectiveness of the agreement had been fixed in order on January 1°, 2019 for all ships IBF with the exception of the Dockers Clause, guarantee clause that will take effect exactly on January 1°, 2020. The deferral of the application of the Dockers Clause was decided as the performance of the clause could in existence have demanded substantial modifications of the agreements with terminalisti and others you leave interested, and in particular for the performance of some dispositions of the relative article of the contract Collective Bargaining Agreement for the portacontainer that they operate in Canada, northern Europe and western Europe (with the exclusion of the Mediterranean) and in the Baltic Sea.

As a result of the agreement for I renew of contract IBF, included the clause of amended guarantee, the labor organizations had manifested satisfaction emphasizing that this last one made clarity on the fact that the operations of rizzaggio and derizzaggio of cargos of the ships must be carried out from harbour workers and they do not have to be executed in self-handler from marine the boarded ones on the ships, draft that is of an activity of pertinence of the harbour workers and not of the marine ones with the exception of restricted situations as those in the ports where not there is harbour labor.