Minoan Lines suspends the service of Venice-Greece line



The company of Greek navigation Minoan Lines, that it takes part of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi, has suspended own service of line for goods and passengers that connected Patrasso, Corfù, Igoumenitsa and Venice. It remains active, instead, the other service between Greece and Italy of the company, that it connects the ports of Patrasso, Igoumenitsa and Ancona.

In a note Minoan Lines it has explained that, "cause lasting of the serious crisis financial institution, the Board of the company has decided, against his will, to suspend the service da/per Venice-Greece".

Yesterday, while, to Venice the workers of the companies in contract in Fincantieri have organized a garrison in front of the city Town hall and are received by the vice mayor of Venice, Sandro Simionato, which they have asked an active presence for the Municipality for the constitution of a bottom for the advance payment of treatment for the extraordinary redundancy fund, but especially taken of position on the crisis of shipbuilding and in particular a effective monitoring on the system of the contracts and defense of the occupation.

In a Fiom-Cgil official notice it in existence evidences the effects of the crisis for a year and means to the Fincantieri of Marghera, therefore almost 4,000 workers, of which 3,000 of the contracts, are expelled by the ship yard. "They are workers - the union remembers - constructors of the fleeting ships, left without job, about which nobody it speaks, that they live stablily in province of Venice. They are expelled by the empty yard as a result of job caused from the absence of store clerks. The perceived salary working to the yard of Marghera is for many workers the single source of yield of the familiar nucleus, but with the crisis these workers have been private brutally of the job and the yield without for they the social shocks-absorber were made found that exactly serve to support the familiar yield in the periods of crisis. Others are on unemployment and from five, six also seven months are waiting for the deliberations of the ministry of the Job on the CIGS for being able to perceive little more than 700 euros to the month. A shame - Fiom-Cgil emphasizes - with their job has constructed and furnished considered ships a virtue of the industrial production of our Country and now are from months without job and salary".

"The naval production, the induced one that it generates - finds the labor organization - she is a fundamental member of the social and economic system of our territory, but not some by the institutions is attention on the drama and the uneasiness lived for effect of the crisis from the workers of the contracts. It would be enough little in order to resolve the problems of workers who boast credits from the State and that they often pay bureaucratic diffuseness and inefficiencies of the companies near which they have worked. The local authorities, Municipality overhead, can constitute deep in order to anticipate to the workers the CIGS amounts and allow a yield minim with disabled workers to pay the mortgages, the rents, the bills and the expenses for the necessities of own families".

Fiom-Cgil still finds that "in this context the Fincantieri society is operating a new tightened on the contracts: the Navicolor, an historical company of the Venetian territory that work on painting they give beyond 40 years, is about to be excluded from the allocation of the job and for the workers an uncertain future together with the cancellation of the conquered rights is shown. The regular companies to advantage of subcontract and the moonlighting are cancelled, that it damages the workers and the economy of the territory".

The municipal administration of Venice the union asks "that it is taken part active for the constitution of a bottom for the advance payment of the treatments of Extraordinary Redundancy fund to the workers, than the city council member to the productive Activities faces the problem of the crisis of the shipbuilding one, the contracts and induced its, than the Municipality it opens a table of I confront for the monitoring and the qualification of the system of the contracts, for the defense of the occupation".