The Port of Bilbao Stowage and Unloading Society, Bilboestiba, has denounced today that the employment of thousands of people and the future of hundreds of companies is currently compromised for the attitude of “little more than three hundred stevedores” and has asked the institutions that “impose the law” in the port of Biscay after a 25-day strike by stevedores and their announcement that it will last until December 9.
The 317 longshoremen of the workforce began the strike on October 9 to demand a new collective agreement and in protest at the “non-compliance” of the current one in terms of breaks, in addition to the stability of a hundred temporary workers.
The employer’s association considers that the traffic diversion that has been carried out due to the strike that began on October 9 “runs the risk of becoming permanent abandonment” from the Port of Bilbao by the major lines, which in your opinion, “it would endanger the survival of maritime operators, road and rail transport, industrial and service companies, as well as the very continuity of Bilboestiba“.
In this sense, he pointed out that the four stevedoring companies – Bergà ©, Toro y Betolaza, Bosco and SLP- “will find it very difficult to recover the large investments made in recent years” and that ” they will be forced to radically rethink their future projects. “
Therefore, they require the institutions to “act urgently in accordance with their powers and obligations” and that it is” precise and urgent to determine the responsibilities of each administrative instance in this emergency situation. “
The stevedoring companies have asked that the institutions act sjn “negligently appeal” to the “understanding between the parties” or the “search for innovative solutions for dialogue”, measures proposed by the Government Delegation in the Basque Country and the Ministry of Labor and Employment of the Basque Government, respectively.
“It is difficult to find innovative solutions for dialogue”, they say, with those who “have never needed to dialogue because they have always imposed their conditions in a work environment so anachronistic and anomalous that it has merited specific liberalizing legislation” that “does not finish forging” .
Bilboestiba considers that also “victims of the strike” are temporary employees, “used as a striking force and spurious argument by the unions when, in reality, they are mere hostages of a strategy that only leads to loss of wages “.
“Meanwhile, their so-called defenders obscenely assure themselves of the bonuses and advantages of the shifts that prevent them from carrying out and they take pains to ensure that the initiatives of the companies to train and specialize this group do not prosper,” Bilboestiba denounces.
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