The port operators and the representative union of the port operators of Leixões have agreed in a new collective contract of employment (CCE).
The new agreement creates the conditions for a more flexible management of the port labour, benefiting thus the port operationality as well as improving the capacity of well serving and wit fair costs, the clients of the Port of Leixões.
One of the main news of the CCE, and with visible consequences on the short, medium and long run, is the division between the port workers considered historical, actually on the board, and those which may be engaged in the future.
The negotiation of the new CCE took place with real social agreement, and with a partnership spirit, always trying to obtain the best for each part involved, without taking into account the interests of the Port of Leixões and the community it serves.
As a matter of fact, it should be highlighted that same spirit of collaboration has enabled the Port of Leixões has lived for long years in a unique social peace environment in the country, which has reflected itself on the results reached.
Also in this field, of great sensitivity, the example of the Port of Leixões will deserve to be studied and, who knows, replicated all over the country, in a period in which is desirable the reform of the port work law.