The International Dockworkers’ Council (IDC), International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) are calling on dockers’ unions around the world to organise an hour of activities on international dockers’ action day next Thursday, 7 July.
Greek unions have strengthened protest efforts and will continue to strike, as the government continues to ignore their requests.
The French police arrested and injured dockworkers during a demonstration against government labor reform in Paris.
Privatization of ports in Slovenia and Cyprus; infringement procedures against port employment systems in Spain and Belgium; conflicts in Portugal, Denmark and Sweden, and the new CBA for the London Gateway were discussed at the IDC European Zone Working Group Meeting.
Athens, Barcelona, Paris. Wednesday, June 14, 2016. On Monday and Tuesday, representatives of the International Dockworkers Council (IDC) met in the Greek port of Piraeus for the IDC European Zone Working Group Meeting.
Today IDC and Slovenian members -Luka Koper Crane operators union met up with the mayor from Koper and held a media conference to state their support to the union campaign against the privatisation process and to demand proper government investment at the port and the construction of the second railway line that would foster the potential throughput at the port.