Ashdod Maritime Transport Company, a subsidiary of Hani whose employees were in the sea department at the government port, is shaking off the planned strike of the Histadrut.
In a letter sent this evening by the company through Adv. Yaakov Melishkevich from Feinberg’s office to the chairman of the Histadrut’s Transportation Workers’ Union, she claims that the Histadrut’s statement last Monday was “illegal, illegal, illegitimate and contrary to law and case law.”
It is also written that “a review of the letters you sent recently on this subject, all of which were addressed to civil servants, as well as following your statements in the media these days, show that the Histadrut has only one thing on the subject for which the strike was declared – and that is the State of Israel. “But she chooses the easy and losing way of declaring a strike with an employer who has nothing to do with the conflict. It is bullying in her name.” The company announced that they consider the strike political or quasi-political.
The company also noted that as part of the reform agreements and the transfer of Ashdod Port’s Navy Department employees to and from the subsidiary, they are committed to industrial silence and therefore are not allowed to take organizational measures “certainly not on this fictitious issue.”
The company also made a serious claim to the Histadrut, according to which an employee of the Planning and Control Center was instructed that “if it receives a request from the southern port to insert a general cargo ship – not to place it in the operational line.” According to the company, “this announcement is in itself an action taken by an illegal organization.”
The role of the subsidiaries, Ashdod and Haifa Maritime Transport, is to carry out all operations for the management of maritime transport in the port area. Each of the companies is responsible for the services required for the purpose of bringing vessels from the Haifa and Ashdod Port Pool to the wharf to which they are intended for the context, as well as removing them from the port. The services required are routing, towing, tying and observation.
These companies were established within the framework of collective agreements between Hani, the port companies and the Histadrut for the transfer of employees of the Haifa and Ashdod Port sea divisions to the Israel Ports Company. Through an independent entity. Each of Hani’s subsidiaries will operate in the relevant port area for the provision of maritime services, and will provide a service to all entities operating in that area. The activities of the subsidiaries will be financed from the revenues from the provision of marine services, “the Hani website states.
Last Monday, the Histadrut declared a labor dispute in the ports following the intention, she said, to unload general cargo ships in the private ports. The Histadrut claims that according to the agreements with the state, the private ports will unload only container ships, thus causing the state to collapse the agreements and threatening to open a strike starting on February 1.
On the other hand, yesterday senior officials from the Ministries of Finance and Transportation responded to the announcement of the labor dispute and claimed to the Histadrut that the state never undertook that the private ports would not unload general cargo ships.
Haifa Maritime Transport Company also opposes the strike at the ports. In a letter sent to the Histadrut through Adv. Dror Gal, the company claimed that the labor dispute declared by the Histadrut should be directed at the state and not at the company. Written.
It was further stated that “to mention that exclusivity was granted to my client, inter alia in order to prevent misuse of maritime services and harm inter-port competition. From exclusivity. “