Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-115"
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"Mr President, the competition and race for profits that you wish to introduce into the administration of port facilities are already practised in maritime transport. This has led to ecological disasters involving the
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and finds expression in the employment of seamen at salaries ten times lower than European salaries. When you talk of reducing the costs of port services, you are clearly talking in terms of lowering salaries, cutting jobs, increasing work rates and doing away with the forms of social and wage protection contained in the collective agreements.
We are therefore opposed to this European directive, and we call for ports and port facilities, which are useful to society as a whole, to be made a public service. We reject the idea of having dock workers compete with one another on the basis of their status or origins, for that would be to the detriment of everyone. All those who work at ports must benefit from the same conditions of salary and social protection, modelled upon the most advantageous available.
With regard to the dock workers who demonstrated before what became a besieged Parliament and were greeted by water cannon and tear gas, I should like you to assure us, Mr President and Commissioner, that the demonstrator who was arrested this afternoon, having chained himself up in the courtyard of the European Parliament, has definitely been released."@en1
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