ITF, new contract IBF clarify that the activities of rizzaggio and derizzaggio are carried out exclusively by harbour workers



Article 4 of the new IBF Framework Agreement 2019-2022, the contract of the marine ones defined in the within of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) in which they are confronted the labor organization international International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and the representation of shipowners, shipping agents and society of ship Joint management Negotiating Group (JNG), clarifies the right of the harbour workers to carry out the activities of rizzaggio and derizzaggio of cargos and other services of cargo handling in the ports.

It has emphasized the ITF to conclusion of the last round of negotiation in order to agree new agreement IBF for period 2019-2022 that is finished yesterday to Manila, specifying that today the Fair Practices Committee Steering Group (FPC SG) increased of the ITF has approved of the terms of the new contract, that it covers beyond 200 thousand marine, and that its members have evidenced as the amendments introduced to article 4 "Non-Seafarers Work" ahead represent a meaningful step in safeguarding the job of the harbour ones.

"We - he has confirmed Conrad Oca, second vice-president of the section Marine of the ITF and president of the Associated Marine Officers ' and Seamen's Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP), one of the main world-wide unions of the marine ones - are many satisfying of the outcome of negotiations IBF. The reformulation of the article on the harbour ones - it has emphasized - is of particular importance and demonstrates the mutual marine and harbour solidarity between".

Rimarcando the importance of the reached result, Torben Seebold, vice-president of the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) and of the section Harbour of the ITF and responsible for the marine field of the German union ver.di, has explained that to the union it is conferred sent with immediate effect "to contact the companies that operate in the Baltic Sea, northern and western Europe and Canadian waters in order to ask that the operations of lashing are carried out exclusively by harbour workers, obligation - it has specified Seebold - that will have to be absolutely respected from on January 1°, 2020".

"The signature of the article on the harbour ones - Paddy Crumlin has commented, president of the Harbour ITF and the section of the labor organization - represents an acknowledgment of the importance of having formed and expert harbour workers who carry out this dangerous job. It is a victory is for the marine ones that for the harbour workers in a context - it has found Crumlin - in which some shipowners they continue to take advantage of marine and the harbour ones", imputation that Crumlin has turned in particular in confronts of the terminalista group Philippine International Container Services Terminal, Inc. (ICTSI).

Also Ray Familathe, vice-president for the United States of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), has emphasized that "draft of an extraordinary result for the harbour ones of all the world. The rizzaggio operations - it has agreed - constitute a fundamental part of the task of a harbour worker. Today - it has concluded Familathe - it is made the history".

Commander Rajesh Tandon, spokesman of the Joint Negotiating Group, that she has presided the table of the negotiations, has asserted that last the 14 months of negotiate "have been particularly difficult. The forum - it has remembered - has met initially to Tokyo last July, with the full intention to reach a positive result in that within. However it has appeared quickly obvious that in that phase nobody of the parts was ready to an approach of the positions. Afterwards it is made much job, included concessions in order to receive the worries of the harbour workers, that they have allowed with the forum to make to share the negotiations and to conclude an acceptable agreement for both the parts".

"The fact that we have been able to renegotiate and to conclude a new agreement in the context of the current difficult conditions of the market - has declared commander Koichi Akamine, president of the Joint Negotiating Group - the validity of procedure IBF attests and of the members that they represent it is the unions that the employers. This strengthens the confidence and the mutual respect that both the parts have obtained in last 15 years (the IBF are instituted in 2003, ndr)".

The new contract of the duration four-year-old (with a review of the wage levels after the first two years) that it has been it negotiate from the ITF with the Joint Negotiating Group, that is constituted by Maritime representatives of the International Employers' Council (IMEC) and of the International Shipping Employers' Group (ISEG), that comprises the International Maritime Managers' Association of Japan (IMMAJ), the Korean Shipowners' Association and the shipowning company Evergreen, besides the new formulation of the article on the job of the not marine workers in vigor from on March 1°, 2018, introduces a wage increase of 2.5% from on January 1°, 2019, an increase to 16% of the classified reduction in price to the associates of the JNG regarding the deposits to the contmgent fund of the ITF (with ulterior a 2% of reduction in price on the base of a system of incentives), the reclassification of the area to wide of the coasts of the Somalia from "Warlike the Area" to "High Risk Area" and the inclusion of a "Warlike Area" of 12 miles nautical to the wide one of the coast of Yemen.