The status of dockers: it is questioned by the European Union

The status of dockers: it is questioned by the European Union

[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

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File : Dockers du Havre

Publication date : 16 January 2006