Dock workers in the port of Antwerp blocked the Katoen Natie terminal for six days, after union delegates performing work place inspections were denied access. The delegates were attempting to enter a warehouse of transhipment and goods storage company Logisport, where they expected illegally hired agency workers being employed. The unions were there to investigate a suspected breach of the Law on Docker Labour, which prohibits the hiring of non-registered dock workers. The conflict was resolved after six days, when the port’s employers’ consortium, the Katoen Natie Group agreed to refer the case to the Social Inspection Services and to refrain from any measures against the personnel that participated in the strike.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online ...
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.