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". We welcome the rejection of the directive on ports. This result concludes an intense fight by unions in the sector
which had our support and that of our political group
as could be seen from the enormous demonstrations in front of the European Parliament in March of this year and in Barcelona and Rotterdam, in September, or even this week, with a petition containing over 16 000 workers’ signatures, in addition to the strikes, demonstrations and other actions. All of the sector’s unions opposed both this directive and the agreement reached at the conciliation meeting between the Council and Parliament, which has now been rejected.
This was a further piece of the overall package contained in the so-called ‘Lisbon Strategy’, which seeks to speed up the process of liberalizations and of opening up the markets in various sectors, from postal services to port services. This constitutes not only a swingeing attack on the public sector, but also calls into question the very concept of public service. The agreement that has just been rejected would, by introducing the principle of self-handling, promote social dumping and the gradual erosion of the salary and working conditions of the cargo handlers. The agreement failed to acknowledge the public service nature of port services, and left everything to be determined by the law of the market and by the primacy of competition. It did not even accept the system of prior authorisation for service providers."@en1
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