{"id":1508,"date":"2008-02-11T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2008\/02\/11\/st-petersburg-bows-to-dockers-demands\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:30:52","slug":"st-petersburg-bows-to-dockers-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/europe\/st-petersburg-bows-to-dockers-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"St Petersburg bows to dockers demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dock workers at Mr Lisin&#8217;s Tuapse and St Petersburg ports have been locked in strikes over a salary dispute since last year. Up to 1,800 workers from three stevedoring companies in St Petersburg walked out in support of the demand at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuapse, in late 2007 striking dock workers effectively paralysed operations at the Russian port of Tuapse for three days, with dockers eventually ordered back to work following a court ruling.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dock workers in Tuapse were seeking pay hikes of 20%, while those in St Petersburg were looking for a 30% increase. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin has agreed to pay port workers at St Petersburg Seaport salary increases of between 10% and 51% as from February 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}