{"id":305,"date":"2018-12-21T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2018\/12\/21\/strike-finally-ends-at-setubal\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:37:00","slug":"strike-finally-ends-at-setubal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/europe\/strike-finally-ends-at-setubal\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike finally ends at Set\u00fabal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This follows an agreement signed by employers and the SEAL union effectively ending the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides have agreed to 56 casual workers being offered contracts by the stevedoring companies, and a further ten to 37 being similarly offered the same in the near future. Furthermore, the agreement undertakes to share work across all those workers not contracted full time and, where possible, to allow them to work without having to resort to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Agreed conditions were little different from those on offer a week before the end of the strike, although SEAL agreed to stop the strike on the condition that alleged discrimination of SEAL members at Leix\u00f5es and Cani\u00e7al could be resolved as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, pressure for an agreement had come from major Set\u00fabal client Volkswagen, whose Autoeropa car terminal was effectively shut down, prompting export shipments to be sent by road to the Port of Leix\u00f5es.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that main customers such as MacAndrews and Tarros will resume calls at Set\u00fabal, although the former initially switched services to Set\u00fabal because of strikes at the Port of Lisbon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at the Portuguese Port of Set\u00fabal returned to work on December 15, drawing to a close a virtual paralysis of the port since November 5.<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}