{"id":335,"date":"2018-11-07T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/11\/07\/medieval-union-working-practices-at-leixoes\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:55:00","slug":"medieval-union-working-practices-at-leixoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/11\/07\/medieval-union-working-practices-at-leixoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval union working practices at Leix\u00f5es"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Portuguese Logistics Association&#8217;s shipping and ports seminar, he noted that unions have persistently tried to close down ports and that their way of conducting business reflected a &#8220;medieval world of port work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on recent strikes, he noted: &#8220;I understand that it is very difficult for [those involved] to pay attention to this world when they have to confront a medieval world of port work that continues to close Portuguese ports with requirements that were not even possible in the 19th century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cgovernment seems insensitive to this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only does [the government] not have a digital strategy [for ports], but it also welcomes the medieval revolt of port workers with passivity, silence and omission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also reiterated the need to design some sort of digital strategy if ports are to remain competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaime Vieira dos Santos, president of Leix\u00f5es port community Comunidade Portu\u00e1ria de Leix\u00f5es, has publicly criticised the way the SEAL trade union has undertaken its recent struggles with port management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}