News / Dockers' union issues threat to Spanish trade over employment law revision

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The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has warned it will seek to paralyse worldwide shipments of Spanish goods if the government follows through with plans that could threaten 6,500 jobs.

The threat follows the government’s decision to alter legislation and adhere to a 2014 ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that Spain was failing to meet the requirements of the EU Treaty’s freedom of establishment principle.

Under current Spanish law, all dockworkers must be members of stevedoring societies, known as Sociedad Anonima ...