Spanish ports face strikes again

Spanish ports are set for eight days of strike action in the coming weeks after parliament’s lower house passed a reform to liberalise port labour practices, which currently contravene EU legislation.

The vote narrowly passed with 174 MPs in favour compared to 165 against and eight abstentions as the nationalist Catalan party PDeCAT abstained.

An earlier version of the reforms was voted down in March before the new version relaxed its stance on workers contracted to load and unload vehicles due for import and export.