Quatre entreprises de manutention du port du Havre, qui emploient des ouvriers dockers ont signé avec le syndicat CGT des Ports et des docks, des "accords maison" selon lesquels une priorité d'embauche serait accordée aux enfants de dockers. Le groupement des employeurs de main d'oeuvre du Havre crie à la discrimination professionnelle. Interviews d'André Aubée, de la Compagnie nouvelle de manutention: "rien qui me choque, ça existe dans d'autres métiers" et de Jean Claude Pigoreau, du groupement des employeurs de main d'oeuvre du Havre "discriminatoire...rapport pas favorable aux entreprises".
The port of Le Havre is affected by strikes of dockers of which 200 of them have not obtained a monthly payment that their local CGT union demands. Jean-Yves PAMART/ Itw Jean-Louis LE YONDRE on job cuts. André GRAILLOT (director of the port of Le Havre) explains that the construction of very large boats will lead to the reduction of stopovers in Europe and that this strike puts Le Havre in a bad position against the competition.
[Source: France 3 documentation] The job of docker has evolved a lot and men have been trained to drive the huge machines that transport freight Big arms they became technicians "you can’t put a guy under a gantry if he doesn’t know the corridors, without knowing the computer, the lights...it’s very technical and increasingly technical" The European directive, rejected in 2003, is being discussed again on Wednesday. It aims to question the specificity of work by making work of other staff, sailors, most often Filipino or Ukrainian "For the moment the competition is loyal the dockers of the countries of the north being paid like us but if one comes to integrate workers who do not have the social level nor even the level of European workers,one is necessarily in shift." comments Michel Catelain Even if they are the best paid the dockers often chain the missions both day and night. This directive is a low blow. For the director of Normandy terminals: "The risk is essentially on the safety of working conditions at the rate of work of the crews of certain ships, I think that we are entirely outside the blows in terms of working hours" All European dockers are mobilizing against this directive which already refused returns to the discussion Wednesday in the parliament of strasbourg
Pierre BASTARD, general manager of the autonomous port of Le Havre, explains that the social climate is of paramount importance for the activity. Because dockers are at the heart of port activities and their profession has a special status. The weight of the CGT is very important.
Interview with a docker from Le Havre who recounts the destruction of the port in 1944. Today he is satisfied with modern tools and the need for significant traffic to ensure the work of the port’s 4,500 dockers.
An investment policy has made it possible to significantly upgrade the infrastructure of the port of Le Havre in recent years. This will continue in the coming years and should make it possible to further increase port traffic.
The economic crisis and competition affect the port activities of Le Havre. Jacky LEROY, docker, explains that he agreed to leave his job so that "all the workforce can claim to work enough". According to Hubert RAOUL-DUVAL, president of the autonomous port of Le Havre, work habits must change to adapt to the current situation.
Report devoted to the strong increase in port activity of Le Havre, which now makes it the third port in Europe. René GOBY, director of a transport company, highlights the improvement of logistics to explain the increase in traffic.
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