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Court ruling puts an end to two-day strike at the Port of Santos

After two days of downtime, the 7000 temporary workers from the Port of Santos returned to the activities on the morning of May 31. A decision of the Regional Labor Court, given on the evening of day 30, determined that the transactions be maintained with at least 70% of actual convened by the Governing Body of Labor (OGMO), the entity responsible for controlling the work shifts in the harbor. The fine imposed on the unions, in the case of noncompliance with the sentence, was set at R$100,000 per day.

The workers went on strike to protest a Term of Conduct Adjustment (TAC), signed by OGMO and the Public Ministry of Labour (MPT), which determines the end of the double-journey and requires the port workers to fulfill 11 hours of rest. According to the Union of Operators and Workers in Santos Port (Sintraport), the rule undermines the workers, because it believes that they get to spend days off work due to lack of demand.

According to the court, 301 workers entered on the scale starting immediately. However, the Dock Company of São Paulo (Codesp) announces that, due to the rain that falls in the city of Santos, the operations are occurring in only eight of 32 docked ships. More than 45 vessels waiting to berth at anchorage area, which is a kind of parking.

Fonte: Exame.com