At the risk of scaring a few more customers of the French ports, the CGT chose continuity in strategy from one year to the next … After a one-day strike on 6 November and a strike overtime from that date, the association of ports and docks union's relaunch its action against the port reform, passed in Parliament July 4, 2008. The CGT called employees of large seaports, where it has a majority, with two strikes of 24 hours this Monday and next Monday. This should lead to a new terminal block of the seven major French ports.
"The answers we received were not likely to reassure all ports, the federation called to amplify the movement," says the union, whose representatives have met with Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau ago weeks.
For the CGT, the "Recovery Plan ports" of the government aimed to "privatize the autonomous ports. "Where are the development projects of traffic? Where are the 30 000 jobs that were created? "Asks the union. For the latter, the only concrete project since the passage of the reform, the LNG terminal Verdon Bordeaux, has been barred by the government.
Business bloodless
More importantly, the union opposes the measure lighthouse, the transfer of cargo handling activities (cranes and personal) of major ports to private companies, for which the procedure is being per-port basis.Given the crisis that has severely affected the sea traffic, the time would be particularly ill-chosen, the union argues: "The operators and major arms, which are the major claimants of this reform are now dying and unable to lead the transfer of tools and secondment of personnel. "
In Marseille, one of seven ports affected by the reform, Pascal Galeota, general secretary of the CGT major seaport, boasts a "moratorium to reinforce the activity, while the government seems determined to keep on schedule to be in order walk as the recovery will occur.
But the CGT leader Marseille insists: "We feel that nobody knows where we go." Reform is much more complicated to implement due to poor economic conditions, "said union leader, who refuses" transfer deficit bloodless enterprise. The question is whether these blocks are the best way to help businesses affected through this difficult period …
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A waste of time, those ten minutes than most workers agree over a cup of coffee? Far from it, if we believe the results of a study conducted by the institutes and LH2 Market Vision on behalf of the professional division of Nespresso. We learn especially that beyond the relaxation that is the coffee break (for 88% of respondents), it is also a powerful tool for enhancing cohesion within a team (after 75% of respondents) and even the best way to ease tensions (cited by 65% of people). The human resources officials themselves acknowledge (79%) that this pause creates a nice moment to limit tension within a team.
It does not take more to make the study of a small black management tool "stealth".This time informal, relaxed and pleasant would more easily establish dialogue and reach consensus on better terms. As employees, they are 81% think that time is essential to keep a clear mind and leave more effectively to its work. Without awaiting the results of this study, some companies have chosen to treat their particular cafeteria into a vital forum for the exchange. Meeting-place for employees of services and different hierarchical levels, the coffee would find that we did not try. Many innovations are born and following discussions between employees who do not encounter in everyday life but find themselves over coffee.
The only fly in this almost idyllic picture, the human resource managers are significantly less convinced that the employees must side of espresso in the morning as a tool for human resource management. Thus, only 11% of managers believe that the time coffee is essential to convey messages, while employees are three times more likely to be in complete agreement with this notion. Nespresso, which hopes to increase its presence in the business with his occupation, in many rely on this argument.
We also learn in this study that are on average 3 coffees are consumed each day in the workplace. For 77% of employees it is a ritual, without surprise morning coffee wins the most votes (44%) to those who follow the lunch break (40%) and the afternoon (23 %).