Strike at the COSCO Terminal in Piraeus since Friday! (Pireas 2 Day News) Mobilization this morning at the COSCO terminal in Piraeus Workers rose up at the Cosco container terminal in response to the leveling of labor relations and daily experiences at work. The mobilization started early in the morning, at the time of changing shifts . Workers in the night shift refused to leave the terminal and the morning shift workers stayed outside. Workers rallied putting demands on working conditions. Locally arrived responsible executives of the company DIAKINISIS, which the subcontractor providing and hiring workers to Cosco and began negotiations for the requests of the dockers. Note that this is the first mobilization at the Cosco pier, highlighting the huge problems that exist on labor relations in the workplace. The demands of the workers Workers gathered at the pier of Cosco unanimously approved their requests, which are recorded in a list and depict a working medieval work intensification, which can reach even 16 hours a day (!) Without paid holidays , overtime or weekend work. Also very important is the demand for notifiable accidents because like complaining employees in case of accident injured transported by private cars and there is no statement accident. Further, the list of demands of workers in Cosco is: • Signature of Collective Agreement. • Recognition of the profession as a heavy and unhealthy • Increase wages • Increase the dockers in a gang on every crane in 5 people from 3 today (was 4 people and decreased by one). • paying the mooring, overtime, weekends and holidays. • notifiable accidents because this time transporting wounded by private car and not an ambulance • To be paid a special allowance to dockers that unlock twist locks on the top of the containers • Provide risk allowance. • To calculate and pay experience allowance • To build a committee (union) that will discuss the problems at the terminal • To be breaks within shifts • Abolish the 16hr work. • To undertake labor regulations. • To pay back all sum due (money owned by company to dockers) Locally they have been supportive to COSCO employees, the president of the Dockworkers Union of PPA Nikos Georgiou and board members of the Federation of Employees in Ports of Greece (OMYLE). The OMYLE from the first moment we emphasize the necessity of a union at the pier of Cosco. The violation of labor rights and the prohibition of association can not cover forever the working middle ages, present in Cosco », said the president of OMYLE George Georgakopoulos.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:59:31 +0000
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