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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Market access to port services2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031118.6.2-171"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-18-Speech-2-1722
lpv:speaker	lp:Arlette Laguiller2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-04-25--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, by rejecting the text that has been proposed to us on port services, I am expressing my personal opinion but I am also acting as a mouthpiece for the objections that have been expressed by a large number of trade union organisations. This project, known as self-handling, will allow ship owners to carry out any port service using their own personnel and equipment. It also opens the way for all sorts of abuse by the crooks involved in maritime transport. Indeed, the directive does not of course force ship owners to pay their personnel the current salaries of dockers, nor even to respect labour legislation. Ship owners can make workers, who are taken on without guarantees, work for low pay and subject them to whatever working conditions they want. This will result in secure employment in port areas being axed and an increase in the number of workers with insecure jobs, who are badly paid, over exploited, inexperienced, with all the threats that this entails for the environment and safety. We reject this directive. Its enforcement would threaten all those that earn a living from port services; it would increase the risk of accidents and pollution. We also reject it because it puts workers from different professions – seamen and dockers – into competition with each other – in order to make conditions harsher for both groups, for the sole benefit of ship owners. Opening up port services to competition stems from the same retrograde mindset as opening up rail transport, air traffic control, postal services or telecommunications to competition. We are opposed to it. Port services, like all services used directly or indirectly by the entire population, should be public services and protected from damage such as competition and the race for profit."@en1

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