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CIN assures the continuity of the operativity of Tirrenia
The unions receive positively the engagements of the shipowning network, but they ask to negotiate an agreement
June 8, 2011
In the course of the encounter yesterday with the Ettore Morace unions, the managing director of the Italian Company of Navigation (CIN), the society constituted from the Gianluigi Aponte shipowners (companies MSC, SNAV and GNV), Emanuele Grimaldi (Grimaldi group) and Vincenzo Onorato (Moby Lines) with the objective to acquire the public company Tirrenia ( on 19 May 2011), it has reassured the representatives of the workers on the intention of the network formed from the three shipowners to assure the continuity of the operated marine services from Tirrenia, let alone the maintenance of the levels of occupation and the wage levels.
"It is positive - Massimo Ercolani has commented, in charge of the marine ones of the Filt Cgil - than from today we have a real perspective for Tirrenia that moves away every phantom of failure". "But - it has added - they remain of the problems to resolve". According to Ercolani, to beyond the assurances advanced from the CIN, it is necessary "to clarify in the next encounters the issues of the contractual and economic protections of the occupational workers and guarantees, so as they are agreed with the government. Moreover the industrial plan must contain the foundations is in order to safeguard all the lines is in convention is outside convention and already to manage the ability to increase the basin of user".
Satisfied of the outcome of the first encounter with pure CIN the representatives of Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti. Also they but consider that the engagements announced from the shipowning network, received positively from the unions, must be agreed and guaranteed through it negotiate with the representatives of the workers. From part its Morace has observed that, if not sussiste some obligation of agreement with the unions, is interest of the CIN to reach an understanding with workers.
A new encounter between CIN and unions is while in program for next tuesday.
The conclusion of along iter of privatization of Tirrenia could be concluded in the next weeks with the official cession of the company to the CIN after the approval of the operation by the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and the Market.
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